"The game is rigged because I lost", sentence 28
Words people use: "rigged" means secretly fixed so one side wins, "scripted" means planned in advance, "lag" is a delay in an online game, "fair play" means well done, you were better (UK), "sus" means suspicious, and "girl" or "bro" are just friendly words for a friend.
Who acts: people, one side, lag, fair play, you, sus · What happens: use, rig, mean, fix, win, script · To what, where: Words, advance, delay, online game, friendly words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, one side, lag, fair play), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 means | parataxis |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 rigged | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rigged | punct |
| 6 | rigged | rig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rigged | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 9 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 10 fixed | advmod |
| 10 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 means | ccomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 wins | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 side | nummod |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wins | nsubj |
| 14 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fixed | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scripted | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 scripted | punct |
| 17 | scripted | script | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 means | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 scripted | punct |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | conj |
| 20 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 means | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 advance | case |
| 22 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 planned | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 delay | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 lag | punct |
| 25 | lag | lag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 delay | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 lag | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 delay | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 delay | det |
| 29 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 game | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 game | det |
| 32 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 game | amod |
| 33 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 delay | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 game | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 play | punct |
| 36 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 play | amod |
| 37 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | nsubj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 play | punct |
| 39 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 40 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 done | advmod |
| 41 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 means | xcomp |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 better | punct |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 better | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 better | cop |
| 45 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 means | parataxis |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 UK | punct |
| 47 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 better | obl |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 UK | punct |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 means | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 sus | punct |
| 51 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 means | nsubj |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 sus | punct |
| 53 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 better | parataxis |
| 54 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 means | xcomp |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 words | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 words | cc |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 girl | punct |
| 58 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 words | nsubj |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 girl | punct |
| 60 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 62 bro | cc |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 bro | punct |
| 62 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 girl | conj |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 bro | punct |
| 64 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 67 words | cop |
| 65 | just | just | ADV | _ | 67 words | advmod |
| 66 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 words | amod |
| 67 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 means | obj |
| 68 | for | for | ADP | _ | 70 friend | case |
| 69 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 70 friend | det |
| 70 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 words | nmod |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | people | Words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rig in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | fix | participle | secretly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | win | present | one side | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | script in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | plan | participle | advance | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is a | present | lag | a delay | a online game | tree rules | |||
| 10 | mean | present | fair play | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 11 | do not said to happen | participle | fair play not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 12 | is | past | you | UK obl; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 13 | mean | present | sus | suspicious property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 14 | is a | present | girl or bro | friendly words | for a friend | tree rules |
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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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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
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