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title: "Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or qua… — Cheating at games and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity" (Leviticus 19:35): changing the rules mid-game to win is cheating. Who acts: you, changing. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating at games and sport» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Cheating at games and sport, sentence 14

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"Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity" (Leviticus 19:35): changing the rules mid-game to win is cheating.

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**Who acts:** you, changing · **What happens:** not use, measure, change, win, be · **To what, where:** dishonest standards, length, rules mid-game, cheating · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating at games and sport» 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 (you, changing), 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:14
# text = "Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity" (Leviticus 19:35): changing the rules mid-game to win is cheating.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Leviticus	Leviticus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
17	19:35	19:35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	mid-game	mid-game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:aux
27	cheating	cheat	NOUN	NN	_	4	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **use** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | dishonest standards |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent standard=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **measure** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | length and weight or quantity |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme length=Value |
| 3 | **change** | gerund |  | the rules mid-game |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mid-game=Patient |
| 4 | **win** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | changing | cheating |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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