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title: Spoiling things on purpose in anger, or losing them by carelessness,… — Spoiling and losing things · tree and pragmatics
description: Spoiling things on purpose in anger, or losing them by carelessness, costs money, time and sometimes someone else's work. Who acts: Spoiling, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Spoiling and losing things, sentence 8

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Spoiling things on purpose in anger, or losing them by carelessness, costs money, time and sometimes someone else's work.

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**Who acts:** Spoiling, someone · **What happens:** spoil, lose, cost, work · **To what, where:** things, purpose, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» 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 (Spoiling, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:8
# text = Spoiling things on purpose in anger, or losing them by carelessness, costs money, time and sometimes someone else's work.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Spoiling	spoil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	carelessness	carelessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
20	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | gerund |  | things |  | purpose |  | in anger | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  | by carelessness | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cost** | present | Spoiling | money and time and someone's work |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value |
| 4 | **work** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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**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:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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

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