--- title: Saying «I let you win» does not hide a loss; it only spoils the othe… — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics description: Saying «I let you win» does not hide a loss; it only spoils the other person's win. Who acts: I, you, Saying, loss. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/28/) [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/) / [Sore losers and button-mashers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/) / 28 # Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 28 Saying «I let you win» does not hide a loss; it only spoils the other person's win. **Who acts:** I, you, Saying, loss, other person · **What happens:** say, let, win, not hide, spoil · **To what, where:** you, loss, win · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, you, Saying, loss), 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:28 # text = Saying «I let you win» does not hide a loss; it only spoils the other person's win. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 hide hide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 spoils spoil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 win win NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | past | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **win** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **hide** | present · do-support | Saying | a loss | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Patient | | 5 | **spoil** | present | loss | the other person's win | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **win** | | the other person | | | | | | nom win «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:28`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Sore losers and button-mashers, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/26/) - next →: [Sore losers and button-mashers, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/)