--- title: Rules agreed before a game are a kind of promise between players, so… — Cheating at games and sport · tree and pragmatics description: Rules agreed before a game are a kind of promise between players, so changing them when you're losing, peeking at cards or using hacks breaks that promise. Who acts: Rules, you, changing. 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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 (Rules, 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:2 # text = Rules agreed before a game are a kind of promise between players, so changing them when you're losing, peeking at cards or using hacks breaks that promise. # 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 Rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 15 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 peeking peek VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 27 hacks hack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | | Rules *not said here* | | | before a game | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Rules | a kind | | | | of promise between players | tree rules | | 3 | **change** | gerund | | rules *= rule* | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **lose** | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **peek** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | at cards | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at card=Theme | | 6 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | hacks | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hack=Patient | | 7 | **break** | present | changing | that promise | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | 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:2`. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/1/) - next →: [Cheating at games and sport, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/)