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title: In a fair game better players should win more often; that is the poi… — "The game is rigged because I lost" · tree and pragmatics
description: In a fair game better players should win more often; that is the point of the game, not cheating. Who acts: better players, that. 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 19

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In a fair game better players should win more often; that is the point of the game, not cheating.

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**Who acts:** better players, that · **What happens:** win, be, not cheat · **To what, where:** fair game, point

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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 (better players, that), 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:19
# text = In a fair game better players should win more often; that is the point of the game, not cheating.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **win** | should | better players |  |  | a fair game |  | often *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in game=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | the point |  |  |  | of the game | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **cheat** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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**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:19`.

**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 ×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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