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title: At the ancient Olympic Games, cheats paid fines that built bronze st… — Why cheating hurts the cheat · tree and pragmatics
description: At the ancient Olympic Games, cheats paid fines that built bronze statues of Zeus with their names carved on the base, so everyone walking into the stadium remembered them as cheats. Who acts: cheats, fines, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» of the religion ethics cou
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# Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 2

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At the ancient Olympic Games, cheats paid fines that built bronze statues of Zeus with their names carved on the base, so everyone walking into the stadium remembered them as cheats.

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**Who acts:** cheats, fines, everyone · **What happens:** pay, build, carve, walk, remember, name · **To what, where:** fines, ancient Olympic Games, bronze statues, names, base, stadium

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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 (cheats, fines, everyone), 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:2
# text = At the ancient Olympic Games, cheats paid fines that built bronze statues of Zeus with their names carved on the base, so everyone walking into the stadium remembered them as cheats.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Games	game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	cheats	cheat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	fines	fine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod
25	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
26	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stadium	stadium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	cheats	cheat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **pay** | past | cheats | fines |  | the ancient Olympic Games |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset |
| 2 | **build** | past | fines | bronze statues of Zeus |  |  |  | with cheats's names | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent statue=Theme with name=Source |
| 3 | **carve** | participle |  | cheats's names *not said here* |  | the base |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on base=Destination |
| 4 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into the stadium *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into stadium=Result |
| 5 | **remember** | past | everyone | cheats *= cheat* |  |  |  | as cheats | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as cheat=Attribute |
| 6 | **name** |  | cheats *= cheat* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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