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title: Games work only when players are honest: the banker handles the mone… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics
description: Games work only when players are honest: the banker handles the money fairly, a tagged player becomes «it», and a footballer does not fake a fall. Who acts: Games, players, banker, tagged player. A sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 6

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Games work only when players are honest: the banker handles the money fairly, a tagged player becomes «it», and a footballer does not fake a fall.

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**Who acts:** Games, players, banker, tagged player, footballer · **What happens:** work, be, handle, tag, become, not fake · **To what, where:** money, fall

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Games, players, banker, tagged player), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:6
# text = Games work only when players are honest: the banker handles the money fairly, a tagged player becomes «it», and a footballer does not fake a fall.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	banker	banker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	handles	handle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tagged	tag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	xcomp	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	footballer	footballer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	fake	fake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Games |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | players |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **handle** | present | the banker | the money |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **tag** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **become** | present | a tagged player |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **fake** | present · do-support | a footballer | a fall |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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