"It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 16
Pointing to one lucky person against the evidence is sometimes called the survivor story.
What happens: point, call · To what, where: one lucky person, survivor story · 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: 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 | Pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 called | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 person | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 person | nummod |
| 4 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pointing | obl |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 evidence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 evidence | det |
| 8 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pointing | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 10 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 11 called | advmod |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 13 | survivor | survivor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 story | compound |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | gerund | one lucky person | against the evidence | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to person=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the survivor story | sometimes property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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:16.
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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