"The game is rigged because I lost", sentence 19
In a fair game better players should win more often; that is the point of the game, not cheating.
Who acts: better players, that · What happens: win, be, not cheat · To what, where: fair game, point
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 (better players, that), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 game | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 game | amod |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 win | obl |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 players | amod |
| 6 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 win | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 win | aux |
| 8 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 often | advmod |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 win | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 point | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 point | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 point | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 point | det |
| 15 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 win | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 game | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 game | det |
| 18 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 point | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cheating | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 cheating | advmod |
| 21 | cheating | cheat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 point | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 win | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | should | better players | a fair game | often property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in game=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the point | of the game | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not cheat | gerund | that not said here | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost.lesson:19.
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): R5-strong ×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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