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title: Online you see other people's best take after years of practice and… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics
description: Online you see other people's best take after years of practice and lots of tries, so compare yourself with yourself last month, not with a stranger's highlight. Who acts: you, other people. A sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» of the arts course of Mova's primary scho
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# Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 2

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Online you see other people's best take after years of practice and lots of tries, so compare yourself with yourself last month, not with a stranger's highlight.

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**Who acts:** you, other people · **What happens:** see, compare, take · **To what, where:** best take, yourself

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» of the arts 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 (you, other people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:2
# text = Online you see other people's best take after years of practice and lots of tries, so compare yourself with yourself last month, not with a stranger's highlight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Online	online	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	take	take	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tries	try	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	highlight	highlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | other people's best take |  |  | year | online *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer take=Stimulus |
| 2 | **compare** | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  | month | with yourself | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient with yourself=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **take** |  | other people |  |  |  |  |  | nom take «possession transitive»: 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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**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, R7-rel-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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