--- title: When a kids' game is already won by a lot, passing more and trying n… — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics description: When a kids' game is already won by a lot, passing more and trying new positions keeps it fun for both teams; piling on more and more goals makes the losers feel humiliated (small and ashamed), and some may quit. Who acts: lot, passing, piling, losers. 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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 (lot, passing, piling, losers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:067-losing-well-and-winning-well.lesson:14 # text = When a kids' game is already won by a lot, passing more and trying new positions keeps it fun for both teams; piling on more and more goals makes the losers feel humiliated (small and ashamed), and some may quit. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 067-losing-well-and-winning-well.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ' 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 7 already already ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 positions position NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 piling pile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj 27 on on ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 conj _ _ 31 goals goal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl 32 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 losers loser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 humiliated humiliate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 xcomp _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 38 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 46 nsubj _ _ 45 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 quit quit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:parataxis 47 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | present · passive | a lot | a kids's game | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **pass** | gerund | | more | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory | | 3 | **try** | gerund | | new positions | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Eventuality | | 4 | **keep** | present | passing | | | | | fun *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pile on** | gerund | | more goals | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme goal=Destination | | 6 | **make** | present | piling | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **feel** | infinitive | the losers | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **humiliate** | participle | the losers *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **quit** | may | some | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:medicine:067-losing-well-and-winning-well.lesson:14`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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/). - ← previous: [Losing well and winning well, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/13/) - next →: [Losing well and winning well, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/)