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title: Chasing a lost rank while you are upset usually loses more. — Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar · tree and pragmatics
description: Chasing a lost rank while you are upset usually loses more. Who acts: you, Chasing. 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 9

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Chasing a lost rank while you are upset usually loses more.

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**Who acts:** you, Chasing · **What happens:** chase, lose, be · **To what, where:** lost rank, more

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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 (you, Chasing), 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:9
# text = Chasing a lost rank while you are upset usually loses more.
# 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): no change
1	Chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **chase** | gerund |  | a lost rank |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | present | Chasing | more |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |

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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:9`.

**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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