--- title: After a loss almost everyone's brain hunts for an excuse that isn't… — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics description: After a loss almost everyone's brain hunts for an excuse that isn't «they were better» (blaming the ref, the shuttle, a teammate); scientists call it a self-serving bias, and noticing it is the first step to learning from the game. Who acts: brain, excuse, scientists. 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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 (brain, excuse, scientists), 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:2 # text = After a loss almost everyone's brain hunts for an excuse that isn't «they were better» (blaming the ref, the shuttle, a teammate); scientists call it a self-serving bias, and noticing it is the first step to learning from the game. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 acl:relcl _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ref ref NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 shuttle shuttle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 teammate teammate NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 32 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 serving serve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 amod _ _ 39 bias bias NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 xcomp _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 noticing notice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 47 amod _ _ 47 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 ccomp _ _ 48 to to SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 49 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 acl _ _ 50 from from ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | everyone's brain | | | | after a loss | for a excuse | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for excuse=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | a excuse | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **blame** | gerund | everyone's brain *not said here* | the ref and the shuttle and a teammate | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ref=Theme | | 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | scientists | brain | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **serve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **notice** | gerund | scientists *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | present | brain | the first step | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **learn** | gerund | scientists *not said here* | | | the game | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from game=Source | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Losing well and winning well, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/1/) - next →: [Losing well and winning well, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/)