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title: Some cheats are quiet: a timer that ran for five minutes written dow… — Cheating in games and sports · tree and pragmatics
description: Some cheats are quiet: a timer that ran for five minutes written down as twenty, a score changed on the class quiz, numbers skipped in hide and seek. Who acts: cheats, timer, numbers. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating in games and sports» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Cheating in games and sports, sentence 10

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Some cheats are quiet: a timer that ran for five minutes written down as twenty, a score changed on the class quiz, numbers skipped in hide and seek.

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**Who acts:** cheats, timer, numbers · **What happens:** be, run, write down, change, skip · **To what, where:** five minutes, score, class quiz, hide

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating in games and sports» 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 (cheats, timer, numbers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports.lesson:10
# text = Some cheats are quiet: a timer that ran for five minutes written down as twenty, a score changed on the class quiz, numbers skipped in hide and seek.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 341-cheating-in-games-and-sports.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	cheats	cheat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	timer	timer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	quiz	quiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	seek	seek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | some cheats |  |  |  |  | a timer and a score *obl*; quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | a timer and a score |  |  |  | minute |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **write down** | participle |  | five minutes *not said here* |  |  |  | as twenty | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as twenty=Attribute |
| 4 | **change** | participle |  | a score *not said here* |  | the class quiz |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **skip** | past | numbers |  |  | hide and seek |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hide=Trajectory |

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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:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports.lesson:10`.

**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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