--- title: A game is fun because everyone tries to win inside the same rules; c… — Cheating at games and sport · tree and pragmatics description: A game is fun because everyone tries to win inside the same rules; cheating takes away the very thing that makes it a game. Who acts: game, everyone, cheating, very thing. 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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 (game, everyone, cheating, very thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:093-cheating-at-games-and-sport.lesson:0 # text = A game is fun because everyone tries to win inside the same rules; cheating takes away the very thing that makes it a game. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 093-cheating-at-games-and-sport.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 7 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 inside inside ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 cheating cheating NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 16 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 20 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a game | | | | | fun *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **try** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | | | the same rules | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take away** | present | cheating | the very thing | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | the very thing | thing | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:093-cheating-at-games-and-sport.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Cheating at school: copying and peeking, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/18/) - next →: [Cheating at games and sport, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/)