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title: Being trusted with the money in a game is a test of honesty, even th… — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in gam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being trusted with the money in a game is a test of honesty, even though it is only a game. Who acts: Honesty. A sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks, sentence 16

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Being trusted with the money in a game is a test of honesty, even though it is only a game.

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**Who acts:** Honesty · **What happens:** trust, be · **To what, where:** money, test, game

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» 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 (Honesty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:16
# text = Being trusted with the money in a game is a test of honesty, even though it is only a game.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.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	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	csubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **trust** | gerund · passive |  | the money in a game |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a test |  |  |  | of honesty | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Honesty | a game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): 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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