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title: That evening he told his teacher the truth, and in the next race he… — Cheating in games and sports · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening he told his teacher the truth, and in the next race he ran — and came fifth, not last, and felt proud, and his team trusted him again. Who acts: team. 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
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# Cheating in games and sports, sentence 9

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That evening he told his teacher the truth, and in the next race he ran — and came fifth, not last, and felt proud, and his team trusted him again.

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**Who acts:** team · **What happens:** tell, run, come, feel, trust · **To what, where:** truth, teacher, next race · **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 (team), 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:9
# text = That evening he told his teacher the truth, and in the next race he ran — and came fifth, not last, and felt proud, and his team trusted him again.
# 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 ×2
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
20	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | team | the truth | team's teacher |  | evening |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient truth=Topic |
| 2 | **run** | past | team |  |  | the next race |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | team *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fifth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | past |  |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **trust** | past | team's team | teacher |  |  | again |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:9`.

**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 ×2. **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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