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title: Doping means using banned drugs or methods to get an edge, and it ch… — Cheating and doping, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: Doping means using banned drugs or methods to get an edge, and it cheats twice: it robs the clean athletes who lost, and it risks the cheat's own body, because drugs strong enough to change a body can harm the heart, liver and growth. Who acts: Doping, clean athletes, drugs. A sentence of the lesson
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# Cheating and doping, as reported, sentence 0

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Doping means using banned drugs or methods to get an edge, and it cheats twice: it robs the clean athletes who lost, and it risks the cheat's own body, because drugs strong enough to change a body can harm the heart, liver and growth.

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**Who acts:** Doping, clean athletes, drugs · **What happens:** mean, use, ban, get, cheat, rob · **To what, where:** banned drugs, edge, clean athletes, own body, body, heart

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating and doping, as reported» of the medicine 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 (Doping, clean athletes, drugs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:064-cheating-and-doping-as-reported.lesson:0
# text = Doping means using banned drugs or methods to get an edge, and it cheats twice: it robs the clean athletes who lost, and it risks the cheat's own body, because drugs strong enough to change a body can harm the heart, liver and growth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 064-cheating-and-doping-as-reported.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Doping	doping	NOUN	NN	_	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
4	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cheats	cheat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	robs	rob	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	risks	risk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
35	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
36	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
37	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
38	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:acl
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:appos
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Doping |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **use** *not said to happen* | gerund | Doping *not said here* | banned drugs or methods |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Patient |
| 3 | **ban** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Doping *not said here* | a edge |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer edge=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cheat** | present | Doping |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rob** | present | Doping | the clean athletes |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent athlete=Source |
| 7 | **lose** | past | the clean athletes |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **risk** | present | Doping | the cheat's own body |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Pivot |
| 9 | **change** | to-infinitive | drugs *not said here* | a body |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 10 | **harm** | can | drugs | the heart and liver and growth |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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