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title: And Ruby, beaten by a gloating boy, simply said «good game». — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ruby, beaten by a gloating boy, simply said «good game». Who acts: Ruby. A sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 21

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And Ruby, beaten by a gloating boy, simply said «good game».

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**Who acts:** Ruby · **What happens:** beat, gloat, say · **To what, where:** Ruby, good game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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 (Ruby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:21
# text = And Ruby, beaten by a gloating boy, simply said «good game».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.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	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	gloating	gloat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **beat** | participle |  | Ruby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gloat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ruby | good game |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent game=Topic |

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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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:21`.

**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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