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title: Acting on jealousy by spoiling someone's things can get them hurt an… — Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Acting on jealousy by spoiling someone's things can get them hurt and can break trust for a long time. Who acts: Acting, Jealousy. A sentence of the lesson «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters, sentence 21

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Acting on jealousy by spoiling someone's things can get them hurt and can break trust for a long time.

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**Who acts:** Acting, Jealousy · **What happens:** act, spoil, get, hurt, break · **To what, where:** jealousy, things, trust

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» of the everyday 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 (Acting, Jealousy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.lesson:21
# text = Acting on jealousy by spoiling someone's things can get them hurt and can break trust for a long time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.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): no change
1	Acting	act	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	spoiling	spoil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **act** | gerund |  |  |  | jealousy |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on jealousy=Eventuality |
| 2 | **spoil** | gerund |  | someone's things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | can | Acting | Jealousy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hurt** | infinitive | Jealousy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **break** | can | Acting *not said here* | trust |  |  | time |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient |

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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): no change. **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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