--- title: A personal best is your best result ever; beating it is real progres… — I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the… · tree and pragmatics description: A personal best is your best result ever; beating it is real progress even if you came last. Who acts: personal best, beating, you. 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 dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [I failed: the missed penalty, the lost…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/) / 18 # I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark, sentence 18 A personal best is your best result ever; beating it is real progress even if you came last. **Who acts:** personal best, beating, you · **What happens:** be, beat, come · **To what, where:** best result, result, real progress 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 (personal best, beating, you), 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:18 # text = A personal best is your best result ever; beating it is real progress even if you came last. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 2 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 3 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 7 advmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 progress progress NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 19 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a personal best | your best result | | | ever | | tree rules | | 2 | **beat** | gerund | | result | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | beating | real progress | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | | | last *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:reflection:024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.lesson:18`. **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 ×2, 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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