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title: Zara lost to the same kind of player and decided she was terrible at… — Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins» · tree and pragmatics
description: Zara lost to the same kind of player and decided she was terrible at the game, until Priya said: «You lost to someone with three thousand hours. Who acts: Zara, Priya, You. A sentence of the lesson «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins», sentence 5

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Zara lost to the same kind of player and decided she was terrible at the game, until Priya said: «You lost to someone with three thousand hours.

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**Who acts:** Zara, Priya, You · **What happens:** lose, decide, be, say · **To what, where:** game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Zara, Priya, You), 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:5
# text = Zara lost to the same kind of player and decided she was terrible at the game, until Priya said: «You lost to someone with three thousand hours.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Priya	Priya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **lose** | past | Zara |  |  |  |  | to the same kind of player | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decide** | past | Zara *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Zara |  |  | the game |  | terrible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Priya |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | You |  |  |  |  | to someone | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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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