Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 28
Saying «I let you win» does not hide a loss; it only spoils the other person's win.
Who acts: I, you, Saying, loss, other person · What happens: say, let, win, not hide, spoil · To what, where: you, loss, win · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» of the everyday 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 (I, you, Saying, loss), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hide | csubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hide | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 hide | advmod |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 loss | det |
| 12 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hide | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoils | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spoils | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 spoils | advmod |
| 16 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hide | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 person | amod |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 win | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 person | case |
| 21 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoils | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | let in a quote | past | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | win in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not hide | present · do-support | Saying | a loss | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Patient | ||||
| 5 | spoil | present | loss | the other person's win | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | win | the other person | nom win «event intransitive»: poss=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:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:28.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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