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title: The handshake line is a signal to body and brain that the battle is… — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics
description: The handshake line is a signal to body and brain that the battle is over: you respect the game and the effort, win or lose, and you celebrate with your own team, never at the other one. Who acts: handshake line, battle, you. A sentence of the lesson «Losing well and winning well» of the medicine cou
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# Losing well and winning well, sentence 4

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The handshake line is a signal to body and brain that the battle is over: you respect the game and the effort, win or lose, and you celebrate with your own team, never at the other one.

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**Who acts:** handshake line, battle, you · **What happens:** be, respect, win, lose, celebrate · **To what, where:** signal, body, game

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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 (handshake line, battle, you), 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:4
# text = The handshake line is a signal to body and brain that the battle is over: you respect the game and the effort, win or lose, and you celebrate with your own team, never at the other one.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	handshake	handshake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	acl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	respect	respect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	lose	lose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
42	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | the handshake line | a signal |  |  |  | to body and brain | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the battle | body and brain *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **respect** | present | you | the game and the effort |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus |
| 4 | **win** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **celebrate** | present | you |  |  |  |  | with your own team; at the other one | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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**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, 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.

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