--- title: Coming last after trying is better than not trying at all. — Cheating in games and sports · tree and pragmatics description: Coming last after trying is better than not trying at all. Who acts: Coming. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating in games and sports» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Cheating in games and sports](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/) / 17 # Cheating in games and sports, sentence 17 Coming last after trying is better than not trying at all. **Who acts:** Coming · **What happens:** come, try, be, not try · **To what, where:** all This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating in games and sports» 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 (Coming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports.lesson:17 # text = Coming last after trying is better than not trying at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 341-cheating-in-games-and-sports.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 Coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 last last ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ 3 after after SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 7 than than SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 obl _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | gerund | | | | | | last *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **try** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | Coming | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **try** | gerund | Coming *not said here* | | | all | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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](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:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports.lesson:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Cheating in games and sports, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/16/) - next →: [Cheating in games and sports, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/)