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title: Everyone learns at their own speed; comparing yourself with others w… — I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone learns at their own speed; comparing yourself with others who finished first tends to make it feel worse. Who acts: Everyone, others, comparing, speed. 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
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# I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark, sentence 16

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Everyone learns at their own speed; comparing yourself with others who finished first tends to make it feel worse.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, others, comparing, speed · **What happens:** learn, compare, finish, tend, make, feel · **To what, where:** own speed, yourself, speed

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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 (Everyone, others, comparing, speed), 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:16
# text = Everyone learns at their own speed; comparing yourself with others who finished first tends to make it feel worse.
# 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): no change
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	comparing	compare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
15	tends	tend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **learn** | present | Everyone |  |  | elections's own speed |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **compare** | gerund |  | yourself |  |  |  | with others | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient with other=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **finish** | past | others |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tend** | present | comparing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | comparing *not said here* | speed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | infinitive | speed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.lesson:16`.

**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): no change. **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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