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title: Someone else's success does not take anything away from you. — When you want what others have · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone else's success does not take anything away from you. Who acts: success. A sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When you want what others have, sentence 16

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Someone else's success does not take anything away from you.

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**Who acts:** success · **What happens:** not take away · **To what, where:** anything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» 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 (success), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:16
# text = Someone else's success does not take anything away from you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.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 ×1
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take away** | present · do-support | Someone's success | anything |  |  |  | from you; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme from you=Initial\_Location |

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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:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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