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title: Pretending to be fouled in sport is cheating with your body and can… — Copying and peeking in tests · tree and pragmatics
description: Pretending to be fouled in sport is cheating with your body and can earn a yellow card; saying sorry to the other team's player helps put it right. Who acts: Pretending, saying. A sentence of the lesson «Copying and peeking in tests» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Copying and peeking in tests, sentence 21

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Pretending to be fouled in sport is cheating with your body and can earn a yellow card; saying sorry to the other team's player helps put it right.

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**Who acts:** Pretending, saying · **What happens:** pretend, foul, cheat, earn, say, help · **To what, where:** sport, yellow card, sorry, player, card · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying and peeking in tests» 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 (Pretending, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.lesson:21
# text = Pretending to be fouled in sport is cheating with your body and can earn a yellow card; saying sorry to the other team's player helps put it right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	fouled	foul	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	csubj	_	_
20	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
28	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	right	right	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **foul** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | sport |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cheat** | present · progressive | Pretending |  |  |  |  | with your body | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **earn** | can | Pretending *not said here* | a yellow card |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | sorry | the other team's player |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic to player=Recipient |
| 6 | **help** | present | saying |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **put** | infinitive | saying *not said here* | card |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.lesson:21`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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