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title: Playing on while upset to win a rank back usually leads to more loss… — Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar · tree and pragmatics
description: Playing on while upset to win a rank back usually leads to more losses. Who acts: Playing. A sentence of the lesson «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar, sentence 30

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Playing on while upset to win a rank back usually leads to more losses.

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**Who acts:** Playing · **What happens:** play on, win back, lead · **To what, where:** rank

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:407-rage-quitting-and-ranked.lesson:30
# text = Playing on while upset to win a rank back usually leads to more losses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 407-rage-quitting-and-ranked.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:xcomp
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	losses	loss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play on** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win back** | to-infinitive |  | a rank |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lead** | present | Playing |  |  |  |  | to more losses; usually *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to loss=Patient |

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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:407-rage-quitting-and-ranked.lesson:30`.

**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 ×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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