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title: "Ye might fool the ref, but ye'll no fool yersel": the cheat loses s… — Cheating at games and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ye might fool the ref, but ye'll no fool yersel": the cheat loses skill, pride and trust; "In humility value others above yourselves" (Philippians 2:3). Who acts: Ye, cheat. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating at games and sport» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Cheating at games and sport, sentence 16

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"Ye might fool the ref, but ye'll no fool yersel": the cheat loses skill, pride and trust; "In humility value others above yourselves" (Philippians 2:3).

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**Who acts:** Ye, cheat · **What happens:** fool, yersel, lose · **To what, where:** ref, skill · **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 (Ye, cheat), 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:16
# text = "Ye might fool the ref, but ye'll no fool yersel": the cheat loses skill, pride and trust; "In humility value others above yourselves" (Philippians 2:3).
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	yersel	yersel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
26	In	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	humility	humility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	advcl	_	_
30	above	above	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Philippians	Philippians	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	parataxis	_	_
35	2:3	2:3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
37	.	.	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 | **fool** *in a quote* | might | Ye | the ref |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yersel** *in a quote* | future | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | present | the cheat | skill and pride and trust |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Eventuality |

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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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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