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title: Paul wrote that an athlete does not receive "the victor's crown exce… — Cheating at games and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Paul wrote that an athlete does not receive "the victor's crown except by competing according to the rules" (2 Timothy 2:5), and fair play awards go to players who tell the referee the truth. Who acts: Paul, athlete, play awards, players. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating at games and sport» of the
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# Cheating at games and sport, sentence 3

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Paul wrote that an athlete does not receive "the victor's crown except by competing according to the rules" (2 Timothy 2:5), and fair play awards go to players who tell the referee the truth.

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**Who acts:** Paul, athlete, play awards, players, victor · **What happens:** write, not receive, compete, accord, go, tell · **To what, where:** 2, crown, players, truth, referee · **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 (Paul, athlete, play awards, players), 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:3
# text = Paul wrote that an athlete does not receive "the victor's crown except by competing according to the rules" (2 Timothy 2:5), and fair play awards go to players who tell the referee the truth.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	athlete	athlete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	except	except	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	competing	compete	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
24	Timothy	Timothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	2:5	2:5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod
30	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	awards	award	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	iobj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Paul | 2  Timothy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **receive** | present · do-support | a athlete | the victor's crown |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 3 | **compete** *in a quote* | gerund | Paul *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord the rules | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | present | play awards |  |  | players |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to player=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | players | the truth | the referee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent referee=Recipient truth=Topic |
| 7 | **crown** *in a quote* |  | the victor |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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