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title: Priya's team were beginners, happily losing to other beginners, when… — Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins» · tree and pragmatics
description: Priya's team were beginners, happily losing to other beginners, when one player on the other side started winning every fight in about two seconds. Who acts: team, one player. A sentence of the lesson «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins», sentence 0

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Priya's team were beginners, happily losing to other beginners, when one player on the other side started winning every fight in about two seconds.

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**Who acts:** team, one player · **What happens:** be, lose, start, win · **To what, where:** beginners, fight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»» 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 (team, one player), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks.lesson:0
# text = Priya's team were beginners, happily losing to other beginners, when one player on the other side started winning every fight in about two seconds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Priya	Priya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	beginners	beginner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	beginners	beginner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
21	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | past | Priya's team | beginners |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund | Priya's team *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to other beginners; happily *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **start** | past | one player on the other side |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **win** | gerund | one player on the other side *not said here* | every fight |  |  | second |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=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:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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