--- title: Failure stings because you cared; the trick is to hear "not yet" ins… — I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the… · tree and pragmatics description: Failure stings because you cared; the trick is to hear "not yet" instead of "never", to look at what you learned, and to measure yourself against your own last try, not against the friend who passed. Who acts: Failure, you, trick, friend. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Failure, you, trick, friend), 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:7 # text = Failure stings because you cared; the trick is to hear "not yet" instead of "never", to look at what you learned, and to measure yourself against your own last try, not against the friend who passed. # 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 ×2 1 Failure failure NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stings sting VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 cared care VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 yet yet ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 instead instead ADV RB _ 14 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 obl _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 measure measure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 32 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ _ 33 against against ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 40 against against ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 advcl _ _ 43 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 44 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sting** | present | Failure | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **care** | past | you | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | the trick | | | | yet | hear *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at what=Theme | | 5 | **learn** | past | you | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **measure** | to-infinitive | | yourself | | | | against your own last try | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme yourself=Value | | 7 | **pass** | past | the friend | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **try** | | your | | | | | | nom try «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:7`. **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 ×2. **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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