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title: Cheating spoils a game, and people will not want to play with a chea… — Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheating spoils a game, and people will not want to play with a cheat; play fairly. Who acts: Cheating, people. A sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play, sentence 15

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Cheating spoils a game, and people will not want to play with a cheat; play fairly.

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**Who acts:** Cheating, people · **What happens:** spoil, not want, play · **To what, where:** game

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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 (Cheating, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:15
# text = Cheating spoils a game, and people will not want to play with a cheat; play fairly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-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): no change
1	Cheating	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | present | Cheating | a game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **want** | future | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a cheat | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cheat=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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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