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title: Test an excuse before believing it: swap controllers, watch the repl… — "The game is rigged because I lost" · tree and pragmatics
description: Test an excuse before believing it: swap controllers, watch the replay, count the times. Who acts: you. 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 20

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Test an excuse before believing it: swap controllers, watch the replay, count the times.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** test, believe, watch, count · **To what, where:** excuse, replay

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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), 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:20
# text = Test an excuse before believing it: swap controllers, watch the replay, count the times.
# 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): no change
1	Test	test	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	controllers	controller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	replay	replay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **test** | imperative | you *not said here* | a excuse |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme |
| 2 | **believe** | gerund | you *not said here* | excuse |  |  |  | swap controllers *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **watch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the replay |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent replay=Theme |
| 4 | **count** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:20`.

**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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