Cheating at games and sport, sentence 5

Cheating at a family game "for a laugh" spoils what makes the game fun; Proverbs 26:18-19 warns against the one who deceives a neighbour and says, "I was only joking!"

Who acts: Cheating, Proverbs, one, I · What happens: cheat, spoil, make, warn, deceive, say · To what, where: family game, game, neighbour · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cheating, Proverbs, one, I), 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	Cheating	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 spoils	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 game	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 game	compound
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cheating	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 laugh	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 laugh	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 laugh	det
9	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 game	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 game	punct
11	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	13 makes	nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 spoils	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 game	det
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 makes	obj
16	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 makes	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 warns	punct
18	Proverbs	proverb	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 warns	nsubj
19	26:18-19	26:18-19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 Proverbs	flat
20	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 spoils	parataxis
21	against	against	ADP	_	23 one	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 warns	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 deceives	nsubj
25	deceives	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 neighbour	det
27	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 deceives	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 says	cc
29	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 deceives	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 joking	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 joking	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 joking	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 joking	aux
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 joking	advmod
35	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 says	ccomp
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 joking	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=evaluate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cheat	gerund			a family game for a laugh		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	spoil	present	Cheating				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	present		the game		fun property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product
4	warn speech: warn	present	Proverbs			against the one	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against one=Topic
5	deceive	present	the one	a neighbour			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Patient
6	say speech: express	present	the one not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	joke speech: other in a quote	past · progressive	I				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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