Losing well and winning well, sentence 14
When a kids' game is already won by a lot, passing more and trying new positions keeps it fun for both teams; piling on more and more goals makes the losers feel humiliated (small and ashamed), and some may quit.
Who acts: lot, passing, piling, losers, some · What happens: win, pass, try, keep, pile on, make · To what, where: game, more, new positions, more goals
This is a sentence of the lesson «Losing well and winning well» of the medicine 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 (lot, passing, piling, losers), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 won | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kids | det |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 game | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 kids | case |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 won | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 won | aux:pass |
| 7 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 won | advmod |
| 8 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 keeps | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 lot | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lot | det |
| 11 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 won | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 passing | punct |
| 13 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 keeps | csubj |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 passing | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 trying | cc |
| 16 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 passing | conj |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 positions | amod |
| 18 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trying | obj |
| 19 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 makes | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fun | nsubj |
| 21 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 keeps | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 teams | case |
| 23 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 teams | det |
| 24 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fun | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 piling | punct |
| 26 | piling | pile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 makes | csubj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 piling | compound:prt |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 goals | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 more | cc |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 more | conj |
| 31 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 piling | obj |
| 32 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 losers | det |
| 34 | losers | loser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 feel | nsubj |
| 35 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 makes | xcomp |
| 36 | humiliated | humiliate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 feel | xcomp |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 small | punct |
| 38 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 humiliated | amod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 ashamed | cc |
| 40 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 small | conj |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 small | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 quit | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 quit | cc |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 quit | nsubj |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 quit | aux |
| 46 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 makes | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present · passive | a lot | a kids's game | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | more | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | new positions | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | passing | fun property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pile on | gerund | more goals | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme goal=Destination | |||||
| 6 | make | present | piling | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | feel | infinitive | the losers | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | humiliate | participle | the losers not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | quit | may | some | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: 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:medicine:067-losing-well-and-winning-well.lesson:14.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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