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title: The script is called 'defend'." Losing is not proof of cheating. — "The game is rigged because I lost" · tree and pragmatics
description: The script is called 'defend'." Losing is not proof of cheating. Who acts: Losing. 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 4

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The script is called 'defend'." Losing is not proof of cheating.

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**Who acts:** Losing · **What happens:** call, defend, not be · **To what, where:** script, proof · **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 (Losing), 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:4
# text = The script is called 'defend'." Losing is not proof of 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	script	script	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	Losing	losing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the script |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **defend** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Losing | proof |  |  |  | of cheating | 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:4`.

**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): R8-pos-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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