--- title: At sports day Kieran starts before the whistle and his egg is stuck… — Cheating at games and sport · tree and pragmatics description: At sports day Kieran starts before the whistle and his egg is stuck to the spoon with Blu Tack; he may get the ribbon, but not the real win, because the skill and the joy were never his. Who acts: Kieran, egg, skill. 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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 (Kieran, egg, skill), 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:1 # text = At sports day Kieran starts before the whistle and his egg is stuck to the spoon with Blu Tack; he may get the ribbon, but not the real win, because the skill and the joy were never his. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:cop 13 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 Blu Blu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Tack tack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ribbon ribbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 win win NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:advcl|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Kieran | | | | before the whistle; day | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **stick** | present · passive | | Kieran's egg | | | | to the spoon; with Blu Tack | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tack=Theme | | 3 | **get** | may | egg | the ribbon but the real win | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ribbon=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **is a** | past | the skill and the joy | Kieran | | | | | tree rules | 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:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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 at games and sport, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/0/) - next →: [Cheating at games and sport, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/)