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title: Winning well matters just as much: Ellie's team in Newcastle won 5–0… — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics
description: Winning well matters just as much: Ellie's team in Newcastle won 5–0 and she shouted «Yous were rubbish!» at the losers, but Sienna in Melbourne won her race and swam over to the last girl, «Good on ya, ripper effort» («ripper» is Aussie for excellent). Who acts: Winning, team, Yous, Sienna. A sente
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# Losing well and winning well, sentence 3

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Winning well matters just as much: Ellie's team in Newcastle won 5–0 and she shouted «Yous were rubbish!» at the losers, but Sienna in Melbourne won her race and swam over to the last girl, «Good on ya, ripper effort» («ripper» is Aussie for excellent).

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**Who acts:** Winning, team, Yous, Sienna · **What happens:** win, matter, shout, be, swim over, race · **To what, where:** 5, losers, rubbish, race, last girl, Aussie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Losing well and winning well» of the medicine 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 (Winning, team, Yous, Sienna), 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:3
# text = Winning well matters just as much: Ellie's team in Newcastle won 5–0 and she shouted «Yous were rubbish!» at the losers, but Sienna in Melbourne won her race and swam over to the last girl, «Good on ya, ripper effort» («ripper» is Aussie for excellent).
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
13	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
16	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	Yous	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	losers	loser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
39	over	over	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	«	«	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	ripper	ripper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=52:compound
51	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
53	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	56	punct	_	_
54	«	«	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
55	ripper	ripper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	Aussie	Aussie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	appos	_	_
59	for	for	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	nmod	_	_
61	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	56	punct	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **matter** | present | Winning |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **win** | past | Ellie's team in Newcastle | 5 |  |  |  | – 0 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Eventuality |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | team |  |  | the losers |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Yous | rubbish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **win** | past | Sienna in Melbourne | Sienna's race |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
| 7 | **swim over** | past | Sienna in Melbourne *not said here* |  | the last girl and effort » |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to girl=Destination |
| 8 | **is a** | present |  | Aussie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **race** |  | Sienna |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:medicine:067-losing-well-and-winning-well.lesson:3`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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