"It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 17

Most colds go away by themselves in about 7 to 10 days, which is why many "cures" seem to work; whiskey is never for children.

Who acts: Most colds, 7 days, whiskey · What happens: go away, be, work, not be

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 (Most colds, 7 days, whiskey), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 colds	amod
2	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 go	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 days	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 7	advmod
9	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 10	case
11	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 7	nmod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seem	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 seem	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seem	cop
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 seem	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cures	amod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 cures	punct
19	cures	cure	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seem	nsubj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 cures	punct
21	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 days	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 work	mark
23	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seem	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 children	punct
25	whiskey	whiskey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 children	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 children	cop
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 children	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 children	case
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go away	present	Most colds	day	by people; away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location
2	is	present	7 days		seem property	tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	7 days not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	whiskey		for children	tree rules

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:17.

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): no change. 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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