"It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 13
Making a rule from one example is called a hasty generalisation: one time tells you very little.
Who acts: Making, one time · What happens: make, call, tell · To what, where: rule, one example, hasty generalisation, little, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"It worked once": one example is not all» 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 (Making, one time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 called | csubj:pass |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rule | det |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 example | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 example | nummod |
| 6 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 generalisation | det |
| 10 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 generalisation | amod |
| 11 | generalisation | generalisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 tells | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 time | nummod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tells | nsubj |
| 15 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tells | iobj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 little | advmod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tells | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | a rule | one example | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset rule=Product from example=Material | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Making | a hasty generalisation | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | one time | little | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient little=Topic |
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, 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:164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all.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): 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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