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title: Losing a fight in front of people hurts the pride much more than the… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics
description: Losing a fight in front of people hurts the pride much more than the body: Connor got pinned down by Liam behind the bike sheds while kids chanted, and on the bus home his head ran hot: "I got battered in front of the whole year. Who acts: Losing, Liam, kids, head. A sentence of the lesson «The figh
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# The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 0

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Losing a fight in front of people hurts the pride much more than the body: Connor got pinned down by Liam behind the bike sheds while kids chanted, and on the bus home his head ran hot: "I got battered in front of the whole year.

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**Who acts:** Losing, Liam, kids, head · **What happens:** lose, hurt, pin down, chant, run, batter · **To what, where:** fight, front, pride, Connor, bike sheds, bus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape» of the reflection 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 (Losing, Liam, kids, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.lesson:0
# text = Losing a fight in front of people hurts the pride much more than the body: Connor got pinned down by Liam behind the bike sheds while kids chanted, and on the bus home his head ran hot: "I got battered in front of the whole year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	pinned	pin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sheds	shed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	chanted	chant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=19:punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
35	home	home	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
39	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	parataxis	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **lose** | gerund |  | a fight |  | front of people |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | Losing | the pride |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pride=Patient |
| 3 | **pin down** | past · passive | Liam | Connor |  | the bike sheds |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **chant** | past | kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **run** | past | Connor's head |  |  | the bus |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **batter** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | I |  | front of the whole year |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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