--- title: Rules matter, but some rules are unfair and should be challenged res… — Cheating, rules and games · tree and pragmatics description: Rules matter, but some rules are unfair and should be challenged respectfully, and sometimes a more important duty, like fetching help for a hurt child, outweighs a small rule. Who acts: Rules, important duty. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rules, important duty), 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:3 # text = Rules matter, but some rules are unfair and should be challenged respectfully, and sometimes a more important duty, like fetching help for a hurt child, outweighs a small rule. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 challenged challenge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 13 respectfully respectfully ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 20 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 like like SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 fetching fetch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 nmod _ _ 24 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 29 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 30 outweighs outweigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | Rules | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | some rules | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **challenge** | should · passive | some rules *not said here* | | | | | respectfully *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fetch** | gerund | | help | | | | for a hurt child | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent help=Theme for child=Beneficiary | | 5 | **hurt** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **outweigh** | present | a important duty | a small rule | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rule=Theme | 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. **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:044-cheating-rules-and-games.lesson:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cheating, rules and games, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/44-cheating-rules-and-games/1/) - next →: [Cheating, rules and games, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/44-cheating-rules-and-games/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/44-cheating-rules-and-games/)