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title: Peeking under the blindfold in blind man's buff is soon seen, and th… — Cheating in games and sports · tree and pragmatics
description: Peeking under the blindfold in blind man's buff is soon seen, and then the others won't let you be «it» any more. Who acts: Peeking, 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 the pragmatics of eve
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# Cheating in games and sports, sentence 20

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Peeking under the blindfold in blind man's buff is soon seen, and then the others won't let you be «it» any more.

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**Who acts:** Peeking, others, you · **What happens:** peek, see, not let, be · **To what, where:** you, buff · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Peeking, 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:20
# text = Peeking under the blindfold in blind man's buff is soon seen, and then the others won't let you be «it» any more.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Peeking	peek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blindfold	blindfold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	buff	buff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
15	then	then	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	any	any	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **peek** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | under the blindfold in blind man's buff | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under blindfold=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present · passive | Peeking |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **not** **let** | future | the others | you |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | infinitive | you *not said here* | buff |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports.lesson:20`.

**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): R1-cc-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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