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title: A group can sometimes have a good reason to limit a game, such as a… — Sharing and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: A group can sometimes have a good reason to limit a game, such as a full team, but not a reason that is unkind to one person. Who acts: group, reason. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Sharing and fairness, sentence 13

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A group can sometimes have a good reason to limit a game, such as a full team, but not a reason that is unkind to one person.

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**Who acts:** group, reason · **What happens:** have, limit, be · **To what, where:** good reason, game

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» 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 (group, reason), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:13
# text = A group can sometimes have a good reason to limit a game, such as a full team, but not a reason that is unkind to one person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 043-sharing-and-fairness.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	limit	limit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | can | a group | a good reason |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 2 | **limit** | to-infinitive | a group *not said here* | a game and a full team |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer game=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | a reason |  |  |  |  | to one person; unkind *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:religion-ethics:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:13`.

**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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