--- title: Comparing yourself with others makes you unhappy, and being grateful… — Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment · tree and pragmatics description: Comparing yourself with others makes you unhappy, and being grateful for what you have makes you happier. Who acts: Comparing, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Comparing, you), 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:8 # text = Comparing yourself with others makes you unhappy, and being grateful for what you 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): no change 1 Comparing compare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 1 obj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 csubj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 happier happy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **compare** | gerund | | yourself | | | | with others | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient with other=Co-Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | Comparing | you | | | | unhappy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | grateful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | you | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | Comparing *not said here* | you | | | | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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. **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:8`. **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. 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