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title: Kai blames lag online, but he loses offline too, on the same sofa. — "The game is rigged because I lost" · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai blames lag online, but he loses offline too, on the same sofa. Who acts: Kai. A sentence of the lesson «"The game is rigged because I lost"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "The game is rigged because I lost", sentence 13

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Kai blames lag online, but he loses offline too, on the same sofa.

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**Who acts:** Kai · **What happens:** blame, lose · **To what, where:** lag, same sofa

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"The game is rigged because I lost"» of the world 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 (Kai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost.lesson:13
# text = Kai blames lag online, but he loses offline too, on the same sofa.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost.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
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blames	blame	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lag	lag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	online	online	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	offline	offline	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | present | Kai | lag |  |  |  | online *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lag=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | present | Kai |  |  | the same sofa |  | offline *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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**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:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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