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title: Blaming a teammate for a loss splits the team; teams win and lose to… — The row over a game · tree and pragmatics
description: Blaming a teammate for a loss splits the team; teams win and lose together. Who acts: Blaming, teams. A sentence of the lesson «The row over a game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The row over a game, sentence 32

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Blaming a teammate for a loss splits the team; teams win and lose together.

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**Who acts:** Blaming, teams · **What happens:** blame, split, win, lose · **To what, where:** teammate, team

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The row over a game» 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 (Blaming, teams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:475-the-row-over-a-game.lesson:32
# text = Blaming a teammate for a loss splits the team; teams win and lose together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 475-the-row-over-a-game.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teammate	teammate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
7	splits	split	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | gerund |  | a teammate |  |  |  | for a loss | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent teammate=Theme for loss=Attribute |
| 2 | **split** | present | Blaming | the team |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Patient |
| 3 | **win** | present | teams |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lose** | present | teams *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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:475-the-row-over-a-game.lesson:32`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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