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title: Lag, a delay in an online game, can be real, but if you also lose of… — "The game is rigged because I lost" · tree and pragmatics
description: Lag, a delay in an online game, can be real, but if you also lose offline, something else is going on, usually practice. Who acts: Lag, you, something. 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 pragmat
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# "The game is rigged because I lost", sentence 23

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Lag, a delay in an online game, can be real, but if you also lose offline, something else is going on, usually practice.

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**Who acts:** Lag, you, something · **What happens:** be, lose, go on, practice

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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 (Lag, you, something), 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:23
# text = Lag, a delay in an online game, can be real, but if you also lose offline, something else is going on, usually practice.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Lag	lag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
19	offline	offline	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
22	else	else	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	practice	practice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** | can | Lag |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | offline *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go on** | present · progressive | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **practice** | present |  |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «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:23`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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