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title: Plato argued that being truly fair is better for your soul than only… — Why cheating hurts the cheat · tree and pragmatics
description: Plato argued that being truly fair is better for your soul than only seeming fair. Who acts: Plato. 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 of every clause.
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# Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 8

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Plato argued that being truly fair is better for your soul than only seeming fair.

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**Who acts:** Plato · **What happens:** argue, be, seem · **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 (Plato), 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:8
# text = Plato argued that being truly fair is better for your soul than only seeming fair.
# 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): no change
1	Plato	Plato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	argued	argue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	csubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	seeming	seem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past | Plato |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fair, truly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for your soul; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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): no change. **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/).

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