"It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 4
One dog bit a postman, so "all dogs bite postmen"; one cake burned, so "I'm useless at baking, forever"; one parking spot at 5 o'clock, so it's "the magic time".
Who acts: One dog, dogs, Turning, cake · What happens: bite, burn, be · To what, where: postman, postmen, one cake, baking, magic time
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 (One dog, dogs, Turning, cake), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 dog | nummod |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | nsubj |
| 3 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 postman | det |
| 5 | postman | postman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bite | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 bite | advmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bite | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 dogs | det |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bite | nsubj |
| 11 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bit | conj |
| 12 | postmen | postman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bite | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bite | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 burned | punct |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 cake | nummod |
| 16 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bit | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 useless | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 useless | advmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 useless | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 useless | nsubj |
| 22 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 useless | cop |
| 23 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 burned | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 baking | case |
| 25 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 useless | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 forever | punct |
| 27 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 23 useless | advmod |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 useless | punct |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 spot | punct |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 spot | nummod |
| 31 | parking | parking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spot | compound |
| 32 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 useless | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 o'clock | case |
| 34 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 o'clock | nummod |
| 35 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 useless | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 time | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 time | advmod |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 time | nsubj |
| 39 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 time | cop |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 time | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 time | det |
| 42 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 time | compound |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | parataxis |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 time | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | One dog | a postman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bite in a quote | present | all dogs | postmen | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent postman=Patient | ||||
| 3 | burn | participle · passive | one cake | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Turning | baking | at 5 o'clock; forever, useless property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | cake | the magic time | 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:4.
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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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