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title: Cheating "the system", like a fake address or fake votes, is never v… — Why cheating hurts the cheat · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheating "the system", like a fake address or fake votes, is never victimless: there is always a real person who loses a place, a vote or a fair chance. Who acts: Cheating, real person. A sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 3

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Cheating "the system", like a fake address or fake votes, is never victimless: there is always a real person who loses a place, a vote or a fair chance.

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**Who acts:** Cheating, real person · **What happens:** cheat, not be, be, lose · **To what, where:** system, place

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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 (Cheating, real person), 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:3
# text = Cheating "the system", like a fake address or fake votes, is never victimless: there is always a real person who loses a place, a vote or a fair chance.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	victimless	victimless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:appos
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheat** | gerund |  | the system |  |  |  | like a fake address or fake votes | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Source |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | Cheating |  |  |  |  | victimless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | a real person |  |  | there |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | present | a real person | a place and a vote or a fair chance |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality |

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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): 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.

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