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title: At ancient Olympia, cheats' fines paid for bronze statues of Zeus, c… — Why cheating hurts the cheat · tree and pragmatics
description: At ancient Olympia, cheats' fines paid for bronze statues of Zeus, called Zanes, with the cheat's name on the base; "The name of the wicked will rot" (Proverbs 10:7). Who acts: bronze statues, name, cheats, cheat. A sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» of the religion ethics course 
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# Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 9

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At ancient Olympia, cheats' fines paid for bronze statues of Zeus, called Zanes, with the cheat's name on the base; "The name of the wicked will rot" (Proverbs 10:7).

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**Who acts:** bronze statues, name, cheats, cheat · **What happens:** pay, call, rot, fine, name · **To what, where:** fines, name, base · **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 (bronze statues, name, cheats, cheat), 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:9
# text = At ancient Olympia, cheats' fines paid for bronze statues of Zeus, called Zanes, with the cheat's name on the base; "The name of the wicked will rot" (Proverbs 10:7).
# 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 ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Olympia	olympia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	cheats	cheat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	fines	fine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl
16	Zanes	Zanes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nmod	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	rot	rot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Proverbs	Proverbs	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:dep|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
38	10:7	10:7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nmod	_	_
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  | cheats's fines *not said here* |  |  |  | for bronze statues of Zeus | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for statue=Theme |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle | bronze statues of Zeus *not said here* | the cheat's name on the base |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rot** *in a quote* | future | the name of the wicked |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fine** |  | cheats |  |  |  |  |  | nom fine «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | the cheat |  |  | the base |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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 ×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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