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title: Twins compare themselves a lot, so one twin's win can feel like the… — Twins and big families · tree and pragmatics
description: Twins compare themselves a lot, so one twin's win can feel like the other's loss. Who acts: Twins, win, one twin. A sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Twins and big families, sentence 37

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Twins compare themselves a lot, so one twin's win can feel like the other's loss.

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**Who acts:** Twins, win, one twin · **What happens:** compare, feel, win · **To what, where:** Twins

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» 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 (Twins, win, one twin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:37
# text = Twins compare themselves a lot, so one twin's win can feel like the other's loss.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 503-twins-and-big-families.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 ×1
1	Twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	compare	compare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **compare** | present | Twins | Twins *= twin* |  |  |  | a lot *obl:unmarked* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | can | one twin's win |  |  |  |  | like the other's loss | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like loss=Theme |
| 3 | **win** |  | one twin |  |  |  |  |  | nom win «event intransitive»: poss=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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**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 ×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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