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title: People who cheat or are bad losers often find that others stop wanti… — Friends, teams and fair play · tree and pragmatics
description: People who cheat or are bad losers often find that others stop wanting to play with them. Who acts: People, others. A sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friends, teams and fair play, sentence 19

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People who cheat or are bad losers often find that others stop wanting to play with them.

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**Who acts:** People, others · **What happens:** cheat, be, find, stop, want, play · **To what, where:** bad losers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» 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 (People, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:19
# text = People who cheat or are bad losers often find that others stop wanting to play with them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.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	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cheat	cheat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	losers	loser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **cheat** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | People *not said here* | bad losers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | present | People |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **want** | gerund | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with others *= other* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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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**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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