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title: His coach said, "Only people brave enough to take penalties miss the… — I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: His coach said, "Only people brave enough to take penalties miss them," and watching famous misses online helped; hiding his boots did not. Who acts: coach, people, watching. A sentence of the lesson «I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark» of the reflection course of Mova's prima
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# I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark, sentence 6

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His coach said, "Only people brave enough to take penalties miss them," and watching famous misses online helped; hiding his boots did not.

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**Who acts:** coach, people, watching · **What happens:** say, brave, take, miss, watch, help · **To what, where:** penalties, people, famous misses, boots · **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 (coach, people, watching), 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:6
# text = His coach said, "Only people brave enough to take penalties miss them," and watching famous misses online helped; hiding his boots did not.
# 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	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brave	brave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	penalties	penalty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj
19	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	misses	miss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	online	online	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | coach's coach |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **brave** *in a quote* | present | people |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | penalties |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent penalty=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **miss** *in a quote* | infinitive | people *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 5 | **watch** | gerund |  | famous misses |  |  |  | online *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | past | watching |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hide** | gerund | coach's coach *not said here* | coach's boots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **do** | past | coach's coach *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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): 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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