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title: Getting a friend to whisper answers can cost the whole team points. — Cheating in games and sports · tree and pragmatics
description: Getting a friend to whisper answers can cost the whole team points. Who acts: Getting. 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 every clause.
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# Cheating in games and sports, sentence 22

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Getting a friend to whisper answers can cost the whole team points.

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**Who acts:** Getting · **What happens:** get, whisper, cost · **To what, where:** friend, answers, whole team points

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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 (Getting), 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:22
# text = Getting a friend to whisper answers can cost the whole team points.
# 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	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	whisper	whisper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **get** | gerund |  | a friend |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | answers |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic |
| 3 | **cost** | can | Getting | the whole team points |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme point=Value |

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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:22`.

**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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