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title: Games and tests only work when players are honest: the banker in Mon… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics
description: Games and tests only work when players are honest: the banker in Monopoly handles the money fairly, a tagged player admits it and becomes «it», a footballer does not fake a fall, and a pupil tells the teacher if a wrong sum gave them extra marks. Who acts: Games, players, banker, tagged player. A se
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# Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 5

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Games and tests only work when players are honest: the banker in Monopoly handles the money fairly, a tagged player admits it and becomes «it», a footballer does not fake a fall, and a pupil tells the teacher if a wrong sum gave them extra marks.

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**Who acts:** Games, players, banker, tagged player, footballer, pupil · **What happens:** work, be, handle, tag, admit, become · **To what, where:** money, fall, teacher, extra marks, players · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:5
# text = Games and tests only work when players are honest: the banker in Monopoly handles the money fairly, a tagged player admits it and becomes «it», a footballer does not fake a fall, and a pupil tells the teacher if a wrong sum gave them extra marks.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	banker	banker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Monopoly	Monopoly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	handles	handle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	tagged	tag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	admits	admit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	xcomp	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	footballer	footballer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	fake	fake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	iobj	_	_
51	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **work** | present | Games and tests |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | players |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **handle** | present | the banker in Monopoly | 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 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | a tagged player | money |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **become** | present | a tagged player *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **fake** | present · do-support | a footballer | a fall |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Patient |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a pupil |  | the teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 9 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a wrong sum | extra marks | players *= player* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient mark=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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 ×2. **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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