Cheating at games and sport, sentence 0

A game is fun because everyone tries to win inside the same rules; cheating takes away the very thing that makes it a game.

Who acts: game, everyone, cheating, very thing · What happens: be, try, win, take away, make · To what, where: same rules, very thing, thing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating at games and sport» 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 (game, everyone, cheating, very thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fun	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	cop
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 tries	mark
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 tries	nsubj
7	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 win	mark
9	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tries	xcomp
10	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 rules	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rules	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rules	amod
13	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 win	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 takes	punct
15	cheating	cheating	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 takes	nsubj
16	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	parataxis
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 takes	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	very	very	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 takes	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 makes	nsubj
22	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 thing	acl:relcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 makes	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 game	det
25	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 makes	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fun	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a game			fun property	tree rules
2	try	present	everyone				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	everyone not said here		the same rules		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take away	present	cheating	the very thing			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	make	present	the very thing	thing			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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.

Licence: CC 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:religion-ethics:093-cheating-at-games-and-sport.lesson:0.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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