--- title: Kicking things in anger can break bones; losing hurts less than a br… — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics description: Kicking things in anger can break bones; losing hurts less than a broken toe. Who acts: Kicking. A sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/31/) [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/) / [Rival teams and the older bully](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/) / 31 # Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 31 Kicking things in anger can break bones; losing hurts less than a broken toe. **Who acts:** Kicking · **What happens:** kick, break, lose · **To what, where:** things, anger, bones, hurts This is a sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» 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 (Kicking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:31 # text = Kicking things in anger can break bones; losing hurts less than a broken toe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kicking kick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 10 hurts hurt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod 12 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kick** | gerund | | things | | anger | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Patient in anger=Location | | 2 | **break** | can | Kicking | bones | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient | | 3 | **lose** | gerund | Kicking *not said here* | hurts | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Eventuality | | 4 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP 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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:31`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Rival teams and the older bully, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/30/) - next →: [The ball over the fence and the grumpy…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/)