--- title: Blaming the referee, the equipment or a teammate after losing is a c… — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics description: Blaming the referee, the equipment or a teammate after losing is a common habit called a self-serving bias. Who acts: equipment, Blaming. 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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 (equipment, Blaming), 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:7 # text = Blaming the referee, the equipment or a teammate after losing is a common habit called a self-serving bias. # 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 ×1 1 Blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 referee referee NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 equipment equipment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 teammate teammate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 after after SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 acl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 serving serve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 amod _ _ 21 bias bias NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | gerund | | the referee | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent referee=Theme | | 2 | **lose** | gerund | the equipment or a teammate *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Blaming | a common habit | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | participle | the equipment or a teammate | a serving bias | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bias=Recipient | | 5 | **serve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:7`. **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 ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/6/) - next →: [Losing well and winning well, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/)