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title: Christians believe God sees what is done in secret and values honest… — Cheating, rules and games · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe God sees what is done in secret and values honesty and humility, so a good player wins without boasting, loses without sulking, and would rather lose fairly than win by cheating. Who acts: Christians, God, good player. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating, rules and games» of the re
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# Cheating, rules and games, sentence 4

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Christians believe God sees what is done in secret and values honesty and humility, so a good player wins without boasting, loses without sulking, and would rather lose fairly than win by cheating.

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**Who acts:** Christians, God, good player · **What happens:** believe, see, do, value, win, boast · **To what, where:** secret, honesty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Christians, God, good player), 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:4
# text = Christians believe God sees what is done in secret and values honesty and humility, so a good player wins without boasting, loses without sulking, and would rather lose fairly than win by cheating.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	values	value	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	humility	humility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	boasting	boast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sulking	sulk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
32	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	than	than	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
35	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	advcl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | present | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | present · passive |  |  |  | secret |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **value** | present | God *not said here* | honesty and humility |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honesty=Stimulus |
| 5 | **win** | present | a good player |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund | a good player *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **lose** | present | a good player *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **sulk** | gerund | a good player *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **lose** | would | a good player *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **win** | infinitive | a good player *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **cheat** | gerund | a good player *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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