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title: Some rules are unfair, for example a rule that favours one group; th… — Cheating, rules and games · tree and pragmatics
description: Some rules are unfair, for example a rule that favours one group; the fair response is to challenge them respectfully, not to break them secretly. Who acts: rules, rule, fair response. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating, rules and games» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Cheating, rules and games, sentence 12

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Some rules are unfair, for example a rule that favours one group; the fair response is to challenge them respectfully, not to break them secretly.

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**Who acts:** rules, rule, fair response · **What happens:** be, favour, not break · **To what, where:** one group, rules

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating, rules and games» 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 (rules, rule, fair response), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:044-cheating-rules-and-games.lesson:12
# text = Some rules are unfair, for example a rule that favours one group; the fair response is to challenge them respectfully, not to break them secretly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 044-cheating-rules-and-games.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	favours	favour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	challenge	challenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some rules |  |  |  |  | unfair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **favour** | present | a rule for example | one group |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the fair response |  |  |  |  | challenge, respectfully *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **break** | to-infinitive | the fair response *not said here* | rules *= rule* |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |

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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.

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