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title: That's like losing a race to a cheetah.» — Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins» · tree and pragmatics
description: That's like losing a race to a cheetah.» Who acts: That. A sentence of the lesson «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins», sentence 6

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That's like losing a race to a cheetah.»

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** lose · **To what, where:** race

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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 (That), 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:6
# text = That's like losing a race to a cheetah.»
# 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
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	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** | present · progressive | That | a race |  |  |  | to a cheetah | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=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:6`.

**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. **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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