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title: Lying about how you got something, like a game skin, is empty pride;… — Why cheating hurts the cheat · tree and pragmatics
description: Lying about how you got something, like a game skin, is empty pride; "Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow" (Proverbs 13:11). Who acts: you, Lying, Dishonest money, whoever. A sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» of the religion eth
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# Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 15

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Lying about how you got something, like a game skin, is empty pride; "Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow" (Proverbs 13:11).

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**Who acts:** you, Lying, Dishonest money, whoever, money · **What happens:** lie, get, be, dwindle away, gather, make · **To what, where:** something, empty pride, money · **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 (you, Lying, Dishonest money, whoever), 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:15
# text = Lying about how you got something, like a game skin, is empty pride; "Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow" (Proverbs 13:11).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	_
2	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	dwindles	dwindle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
25	gathers	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
26	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:acl
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	13:11	13:11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Lying | empty pride |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwindle away** *in a quote* | present | Dishonest money |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **gather** *in a quote* | present |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present | whoever | money |  |  |  | Proverbs  13:11 *obl* | tree rules |
| 7 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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. **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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