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title: A win by cheating rarely feels like a real win; giving back what you… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics
description: A win by cheating rarely feels like a real win; giving back what you did not earn often brings relief. Who acts: win, you, giving, cheating. A sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 14

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A win by cheating rarely feels like a real win; giving back what you did not earn often brings relief.

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**Who acts:** win, you, giving, cheating · **What happens:** feel, give back, not earn, bring, win · **To what, where:** relief

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» of the reflection 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 (win, you, giving, cheating), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:14
# text = A win by cheating rarely feels like a real win; giving back what you did not earn often brings relief.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
4	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
5	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **feel** | present | a win by cheating |  |  |  |  | like a real win; rarely *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like win=Theme |
| 2 | **give back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **earn** | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | present | giving | relief |  |  |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent relief=Theme |
| 5 | **win** |  | cheating |  |  |  |  |  | nom win «event intransitive»: by=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:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:14`.

**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 ×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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