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title: "Anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor's cro… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics
description: "Anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor's crown except by competing according to the rules" (2 Timothy 2:5); some say the referee's call is part of the game, others say honesty comes first. Who acts: Anyone, some, call, others. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the 
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# Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 11

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"Anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor's crown except by competing according to the rules" (2 Timothy 2:5); some say the referee's call is part of the game, others say honesty comes first.

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**Who acts:** Anyone, some, call, others, honesty, victor · **What happens:** compete, not receive, accord, say, be, come · **To what, where:** crown, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics 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 (Anyone, some, call, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:11
# text = "Anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor's crown except by competing according to the rules" (2 Timothy 2:5); some say the referee's call is part of the game, others say honesty comes first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
2	Anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	competes	compete	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	athlete	athlete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	except	except	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	competing	compete	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
18	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
24	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	Timothy	Timothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
26	2:5	2:5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	ccomp	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur
42	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
43	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	ccomp	_	_
45	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	44	advmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **compete** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | as a athlete | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **receive** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Anyone | the victor's crown |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **compete** *in a quote* | gerund | Anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord the rules | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the referee's call | part |  |  |  | of the game | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **come** | present | honesty |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **crown** *in a quote* |  | the victor |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **call** |  | the referee |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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): R8-pos-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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