Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 29

Quitting a match to avoid a loss is unfair to the other players.

Who acts: Quitting · What happens: quit, avoid, be · To what, where: match, loss

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 (Quitting), 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	Quitting	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 unfair	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 match	det
3	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Quitting	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 avoid	mark
5	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Quitting	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 loss	det
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avoid	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 unfair	cop
9	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 players	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 players	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 players	amod
13	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 unfair	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 unfair	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	quit	gerund		a match		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Source
2	avoid	to-infinitive		a loss		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent loss=Location
3	is	present	Quitting		to the other players; unfair property	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.

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:29.

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 ×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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