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title: Being bad at a game can still help you make friends if you laugh at… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics
description: Being bad at a game can still help you make friends if you laugh at yourself. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 41

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Being bad at a game can still help you make friends if you laugh at yourself.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, help, make, laugh · **To what, where:** game, you, friends

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:41
# text = Being bad at a game can still help you make friends if you laugh at yourself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.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	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	csubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | gerund |  |  |  | a game |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | can |  | you |  |  | still |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
| 4 | **laugh** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | at yourself | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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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**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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:41`.

**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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