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title: Saying "fair play, you were better" is the strong move. — "The game is rigged because I lost" · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying "fair play, you were better" is the strong move. Who acts: you, Saying. A sentence of the lesson «"The game is rigged because I lost"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "The game is rigged because I lost", sentence 16

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Saying "fair play, you were better" is the strong move.

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**Who acts:** you, Saying · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** strong move · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"The game is rigged because I lost"» of the world 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, Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost.lesson:16
# text = Saying "fair play, you were better" is the strong move.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost.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
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	dep	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	ccomp	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Saying | the strong move |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost.lesson:16`.

**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. **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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