"The game is rigged because I lost", sentence 5
Grown-ups call it a self-serving bias: when we win, it's our skill; when we lose, it's the game, the controller, the lag, the referee, the banker.
Who acts: Grown ups, we, Losing · What happens: call, win, be, lose · To what, where: Losing, skill, game · 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 (Grown ups, we, Losing), 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 | Grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ups | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bias | det |
| 7 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 serving | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 self | punct |
| 9 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bias | compound |
| 10 | bias | bias | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | xcomp |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 skill | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 win | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 win | nsubj |
| 14 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 skill | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 win | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 skill | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 skill | cop |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 skill | nmod:poss |
| 19 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bias | appos |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 game | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 lose | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 lose | nsubj |
| 23 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 game | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lose | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 game | nsubj |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 game | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 game | det |
| 28 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skill | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 controller | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 controller | det |
| 31 | controller | controller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 game | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lag | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lag | det |
| 34 | lag | lag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 game | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 referee | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 referee | det |
| 37 | referee | referee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 game | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 banker | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 banker | det |
| 40 | banker | banker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 game | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Grown ups | Losing | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | win | present | we | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Losing | our skill | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | present | we | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | Losing | the game and the controller and the lag and the referee and the banker | 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:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost.lesson:5.
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 ×4, 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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