--- title: Losing with good grace and learning from it helps you get better, an… — The copier and the one who competes at everything · tree and pragmatics description: Losing with good grace and learning from it helps you get better, and rivals can push you to improve. Who acts: help, you, rivals. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The copier and the one who competes at…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything/) / 37 # The copier and the one who competes at everything, sentence 37 Losing with good grace and learning from it helps you get better, and rivals can push you to improve. **Who acts:** help, you, rivals · **What happens:** lose, learn, help, get, push, improve · **To what, where:** you 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 (help, you, rivals), 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:37 # text = Losing with good grace and learning from it helps you get better, and rivals can push you to improve. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 2 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 7 from from SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 rivals rival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | gerund | | | | | | with good grace | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **learn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | present | help | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **push** | can | rivals | you | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **improve** | to-infinitive | rivals *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:37`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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. 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