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title: You don't have to join every contest; stepping out often makes a riv… — The copier and the one who competes at everything · tree and pragmatics
description: You don't have to join every contest; stepping out often makes a rivalry fizzle. Who acts: You, stepping, rivalry. A sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The copier and the one who competes at everything, sentence 31

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You don't have to join every contest; stepping out often makes a rivalry fizzle.

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**Who acts:** You, stepping, rivalry · **What happens:** not have, join, step out, make, fizzle · **To what, where:** contest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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, stepping, rivalry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:31
# text = You don't have to join every contest; stepping out often makes a rivalry fizzle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
11	out	out	PART	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fizzle	fizzle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | every contest |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Patient |
| 3 | **step out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | stepping |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fizzle** | infinitive | a rivalry |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): 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.

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