--- title: Being happy for someone else's success is a skill that gets easier w… — Taking too much · tree and pragmatics description: Being happy for someone else's success is a skill that gets easier with practice. Who acts: skill. A sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/19/) [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/) / [Taking too much](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/) / 19 # Taking too much, sentence 19 Being happy for someone else's success is a skill that gets easier with practice. **Who acts:** skill · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** skill This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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 (skill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:19 # text = Being happy for someone else's success is a skill that gets easier with practice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 csubj _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 else else ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 7 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | for someone's success; happy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a skill | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | present | a skill | | | | | easy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:19`. **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: [Taking too much, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/18/) - next →: [Taking too much, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/)