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title: A prize won with someone else's work does not feel like winning; own… — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics
description: A prize won with someone else's work does not feel like winning; owning up is the brave thing. Who acts: prize, owning, someone. A sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The essay the teacher spotted, sentence 15

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A prize won with someone else's work does not feel like winning; owning up is the brave thing.

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**Who acts:** prize, owning, someone · **What happens:** win, not feel, own up, be, work · **To what, where:** prize, brave thing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai 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 (prize, owning, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:15
# text = A prize won with someone else's work does not feel like winning; owning up is the brave thing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | participle |  | a prize *not said here* |  |  |  | with someone's work | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | a prize |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **win** | gerund | a prize *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is a** | present | owning | the brave thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **work** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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