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title: A glitch is a mistake in a game; using it to win in matches is unfai… — Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins» · tree and pragmatics
description: A glitch is a mistake in a game; using it to win in matches is unfair to others. Who acts: glitch, using. A sentence of the lesson «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins», sentence 32

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A glitch is a mistake in a game; using it to win in matches is unfair to others.

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**Who acts:** glitch, using · **What happens:** be, use, win · **To what, where:** mistake, game, glitch, matches

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»» 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 (glitch, using), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks.lesson:32
# text = A glitch is a mistake in a game; using it to win in matches is unfair to others.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks.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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glitch	glitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a glitch | a mistake |  | a game |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | gerund |  | glitch |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **win** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | matches |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in match=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | present | using |  |  |  |  | to others; unfair *property* | tree rules |

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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:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks.lesson:32`.

**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 ×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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