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title: Rivalry can make you try harder, but competing to crush someone hurts. — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics
description: Rivalry can make you try harder, but competing to crush someone hurts. Who acts: Rivalry, you, competing. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 32

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Rivalry can make you try harder, but competing to crush someone hurts.

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**Who acts:** Rivalry, you, competing · **What happens:** make, try, compete, crush, hurt · **To what, where:** you, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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 (Rivalry, you, competing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:32
# text = Rivalry can make you try harder, but competing to crush someone hurts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	competing	compete	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | Rivalry | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **compete** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **crush** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 5 | **hurt** | present | competing |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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