Losing well and winning well, sentence 2

After a loss almost everyone's brain hunts for an excuse that isn't «they were better» (blaming the ref, the shuttle, a teammate); scientists call it a self-serving bias, and noticing it is the first step to learning from the game.

Who acts: brain, excuse, scientists · What happens: hunt, not be, blame, call, serve, notice · To what, where: ref, brain, first step, game · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brain, excuse, scientists), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 loss	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 loss	det
3	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunts	obl
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 everyone	advmod
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 brain	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 everyone	case
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunts	nsubj
8	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 call	parataxis
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 excuse	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 excuse	det
11	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunts	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 better	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 better	cop
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 better	advmod
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 better	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 better	cop
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 excuse	acl:relcl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 blaming	punct
21	blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 excuse	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ref	det
23	ref	ref	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blaming	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shuttle	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shuttle	det
26	shuttle	shuttle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ref	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 teammate	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 teammate	det
29	teammate	teammate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ref	conj
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 blaming	punct
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 hunts	punct
32	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 call	nsubj
33	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 call	obj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bias	det
36	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 serving	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 self	punct
38	serving	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 bias	amod
39	bias	bias	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 call	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 noticing	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 noticing	cc
42	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 call	advcl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 step	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 step	cop
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 step	det
46	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	47 step	amod
47	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 noticing	ccomp
48	to	to	SCONJ	_	49 learning	mark
49	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 step	acl
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 game	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 game	det
52	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 learning	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hunts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	everyone's brain			after a loss	for a excuse	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for excuse=Theme
2	not is in a quote	present	a excuse				good property	tree rules
3	blame	gerund	everyone's brain not said here	the ref and the shuttle and a teammate				vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ref=Theme
4	call speech: assert	present	scientists	brain				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
5	serve	gerund						vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
6	notice	gerund	scientists not said here					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	present	brain	the first step				tree rules
8	learn	gerund	scientists not said here		the game			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from game=Source

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:2.

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 ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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