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title: The fix for cheating in a game is to say sorry and play again fairly. — Cheating in games and sports · tree and pragmatics
description: The fix for cheating in a game is to say sorry and play again fairly. Who acts: fix. 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 23

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The fix for cheating in a game is to say sorry and play again fairly.

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**Who acts:** fix · **What happens:** cheat, be, play · **To what, where:** game

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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 (fix), 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:23
# text = The fix for cheating in a game is to say sorry and play again fairly.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
15	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **cheat** | gerund |  |  |  | a game |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the fix |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | infinitive | the fix *not said here* |  |  |  | again | fairly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:23`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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