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title: Jealousy is wanting what someone else has, or the attention they get… — Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment · tree and pragmatics
description: Jealousy is wanting what someone else has, or the attention they get; it is a normal feeling, but taking it out on others is not fair, and thinking about the good things you already have makes you happier. Who acts: Jealousy, someone, they, taking. A sentence of the lesson «Disappointment, jealousy 
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# Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment, sentence 1

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Jealousy is wanting what someone else has, or the attention they get; it is a normal feeling, but taking it out on others is not fair, and thinking about the good things you already have makes you happier.

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**Who acts:** Jealousy, someone, they, taking, you, thinking · **What happens:** want, have, get, be, take out, not be · **To what, where:** attention, normal feeling, Jealousy, others, good things, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment» 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 (Jealousy, someone, they, taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:092-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment.lesson:1
# text = Jealousy is wanting what someone else has, or the attention they get; it is a normal feeling, but taking it out on others is not fair, and thinking about the good things you already have makes you happier.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 092-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	parataxis	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	csubj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	csubj	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	already	already	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	xcomp	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40: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 | **want** | present · progressive | Jealousy |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | present | they | the attention *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Jealousy | a normal feeling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take out** | gerund |  | Jealousy |  | others |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present | taking |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the good things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic |
| 8 | **have** | present | you | the good things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 9 | **make** | present | thinking | you |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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