--- title: Cheating at a family game "for a laugh" spoils what makes the game f… — Cheating at games and sport · tree and pragmatics description: Cheating at a family game "for a laugh" spoils what makes the game fun; Proverbs 26:18-19 warns against the one who deceives a neighbour and says, "I was only joking!" Who acts: Cheating, Proverbs, one, I. 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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 (Cheating, Proverbs, one, I), 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:5 # text = Cheating at a family game "for a laugh" spoils what makes the game fun; Proverbs 26:18-19 warns against the one who deceives a neighbour and says, "I was only joking!" # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cheating cheat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 11 spoils spoil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 18 Proverbs proverb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 26:18-19 26:18-19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ _ 20 warns warn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 21 against against ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 deceives deceive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 joking joke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:parataxis 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cheat** | gerund | | | | a family game for a laugh | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **spoil** | present | Cheating | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | | the game | | | | fun *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product | | 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | Proverbs | | | | | against the one | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against one=Topic | | 5 | **deceive** | present | the one | a neighbour | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the one *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **joke** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · progressive | I | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Cheating at games and sport, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/4/) - next →: [Cheating at games and sport, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/)