--- title: Playing every day gives you a big head start, so a fair host evens i… — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics description: Playing every day gives you a big head start, so a fair host evens it out. Who acts: Playing, fair host. 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/31/) [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/) / 31 # Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 31 Playing every day gives you a big head start, so a fair host evens it out. **Who acts:** Playing, fair host · **What happens:** play, give, even out · **To what, where:** big head start, you, start 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 (Playing, fair host), 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:31 # text = Playing every day gives you a big head start, so a fair host evens it out. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 evens even VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj 17 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:compound:prt 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | gerund | | | | | day | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | present | Playing | a big head start | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient start=Theme | | 3 | **even out** | present | a fair host | start | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:31`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/29/) - next →: [Sore losers and button-mashers, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/)