Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 3
Cheating "the system", like a fake address or fake votes, is never victimless: there is always a real person who loses a place, a vote or a fair chance.
Who acts: Cheating, real person · What happens: cheat, not be, be, lose · To what, where: system, place
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» 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, real person), 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 | 17 victimless | csubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 system | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 system | det |
| 4 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cheating | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 system | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cheating | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 address | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 address | det |
| 9 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 address | amod |
| 10 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cheating | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 votes | cc |
| 12 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 votes | amod |
| 13 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 address | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cheating | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 victimless | cop |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 victimless | advmod |
| 17 | victimless | victimless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 victimless | parataxis |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 is | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 person | det |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 person | amod |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 loses | nsubj |
| 26 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 person | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loses | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 vote | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 vote | det |
| 31 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 place | conj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 chance | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 chance | det |
| 34 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 chance | amod |
| 35 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 vote | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 victimless | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheat | gerund | the system | like a fake address or fake votes | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Source | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | Cheating | victimless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | a real person | there | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | lose | present | a real person | a place and a vote or a fair chance | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality |
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:094-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat.lesson:3.
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 ×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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