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title: Being picked last again and again hurts; teachers can choose teams i… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being picked last again and again hurts; teachers can choose teams in fairer ways if they are told. Who acts: teachers. A sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 13

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Being picked last again and again hurts; teachers can choose teams in fairer ways if they are told.

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**Who acts:** teachers · **What happens:** pick, hurt, choose, tell · **To what, where:** teams, fairer ways, teachers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» 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 (teachers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:13
# text = Being picked last again and again hurts; teachers can choose teams in fairer ways if they are told.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	csubj	_	_
3	last	last	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
7	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
12	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **pick** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  | again | last *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» |
| 2 | **hurt** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **choose** | can | teachers | teams |  | fairer ways |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | teachers *= teacher* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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