--- title: In a game, cheating spoils the fun, and people stop wanting to play… — Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen… · tree and pragmatics description: In a game, cheating spoils the fun, and people stop wanting to play with a cheat, so play fairly even when you are losing. Who acts: cheating, people, you. A sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» of the everyday cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Helping in the kitchen, bathroom priva…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing/) / 3 # Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed, sentence 3 In a game, cheating spoils the fun, and people stop wanting to play with a cheat, so play fairly even when you are losing. **Who acts:** cheating, people, you · **What happens:** spoil, stop, want, play, lose · **To what, where:** fun, game This is a sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.lesson:3 # text = In a game, cheating spoils the fun, and people stop wanting to play with a cheat, so play fairly even when you are losing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 cheating cheating NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 spoils spoil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 wanting want VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cheat cheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 play play VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spoil** | present | cheating | the fun | | a game | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** | present | people | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **want** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **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 | | 5 | **play** | infinitive | | | | | | fairly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lose** | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.lesson:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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