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title: "Gutted" means very disappointed; "bottled it" means lost your nerve… — I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Gutted" means very disappointed; "bottled it" means lost your nerve; "unlucky, mate" is a kind thing to say after a miss. Who acts: unlucky mate. A sentence of the lesson «I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark, sentence 11

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"Gutted" means very disappointed; "bottled it" means lost your nerve; "unlucky, mate" is a kind thing to say after a miss.

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**Who acts:** unlucky mate · **What happens:** gut, mean, bottle, lose, be, say · **To what, where:** Failure, nerve, kind thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark» 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 (unlucky mate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.lesson:11
# text = "Gutted" means very disappointed; "bottled it" means lost your nerve; "unlucky, mate" is a kind thing to say after a miss.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	bottled	bottle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	nsubj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	nerve	nerve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
18	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **gut** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | disappointed *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bottle** *in a quote* | past |  | Failure |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **lose** | participle |  | your nerve |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is a** | present | unlucky mate | a kind thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after a miss |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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