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description: Being the banker in a game is a test of honesty, even though it is only a game. Who acts: truth. A sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 13

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Being the banker in a game is a test of honesty, even though it is only a game.

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**Who acts:** truth · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** banker, game, test

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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 (truth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:13
# text = Being the banker in a game is a test of honesty, even though it is only a game.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	banker	banker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | the banker |  | a game |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a test |  |  |  | of honesty | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | truth | 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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**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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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