--- title: Letting little ones win sometimes keeps them keen; older children us… — Cheating at games and sport · tree and pragmatics description: Letting little ones win sometimes keeps them keen; older children usually want real wins, and can ask to play properly. Who acts: little ones, Letting, older children. 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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 (little ones, Letting, older children), 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:15 # text = Letting little ones win sometimes keeps them keen; older children usually want real wins, and can ask to play properly. # 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 ×1 1 Letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 xcomp _ _ 5 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 advmod _ _ 6 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 usually usually ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 wins win NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 properly properly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **win** | present | little ones | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | present | Letting | length | | | | keen, sometimes *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **want** | present | older children | real wins | | | | usually *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot win=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | older children *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | older children *not said here* | | | | | properly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:15`. **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 ×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 games and sport, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/14/) - next →: [Cheating at games and sport, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/)