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title: Many great players were not picked for a team at first and kept prac… — Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment · tree and pragmatics
description: Many great players were not picked for a team at first and kept practising. A sentence of the lesson «Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment, sentence 5

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Many great players were not picked for a team at first and kept practising.

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**What happens:** not pick, keep, practise · **To what, where:** Many great players

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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: 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:5
# text = Many great players were not picked for a team at first and kept practising.
# 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): no change
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	practising	practise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **pick** | past · passive |  | Many great players |  |  |  | for a team | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for team=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **keep** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **practise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:092-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment.lesson:5`.

**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): no change. **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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