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title: Winning by cheating is not really winning: the others stop the game,… — Cheating in games and sports · tree and pragmatics
description: Winning by cheating is not really winning: the others stop the game, stop trusting you, and you have not got any better at anything. Who acts: Winning, others, you. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating in games and sports» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Cheating in games and sports, sentence 12

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Winning by cheating is not really winning: the others stop the game, stop trusting you, and you have not got any better at anything.

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**Who acts:** Winning, others, you · **What happens:** win, not win, stop, trust, not get · **To what, where:** game, you

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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 (Winning, others, you), 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:12
# text = Winning by cheating is not really winning: the others stop the game, stop trusting you, and you have not got any better at anything.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
3	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
24	any	any	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by cheating | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **win** | present · progressive | Winning |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | present | the others | the game |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality |
| 4 | **stop** | infinitive | the others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **trust** | gerund | the others *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **get** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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