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title: A fisherman's tale everyone knows will grow is a joke; claiming a fa… — Why cheating hurts the cheat · tree and pragmatics
description: A fisherman's tale everyone knows will grow is a joke; claiming a fake record in a competition is cheating. Who acts: everyone, tale, fisherman. A sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 14

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A fisherman's tale everyone knows will grow is a joke; claiming a fake record in a competition is cheating.

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**Who acts:** everyone, tale, fisherman · **What happens:** know, grow, be, claim, cheat, tell · **To what, where:** tale, joke, fake record, competition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» 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 (everyone, tale, fisherman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:094-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat.lesson:14
# text = A fisherman's tale everyone knows will grow is a joke; claiming a fake record in a competition is cheating.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 094-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat.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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | everyone | a fisherman's tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a fisherman's tale | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | a fisherman's tale *not said here* | a fake record |  | a competition |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cheat** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tell** |  | a fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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**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 ×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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