"It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 5
A cousin of the trap is the lucky survivor: Gran's neighbour smoked and lived to 95, so "smoking can't be that bad".
Who acts: cousin, smoking · What happens: be, smoke, live, not be · To what, where: lucky survivor, neighbour
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 (cousin, smoking), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cousin | det |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 survivor | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 trap | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trap | det |
| 5 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 survivor | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 survivor | det |
| 8 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 survivor | amod |
| 9 | survivor | survivor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 neighbour | punct |
| 11 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Gran | case |
| 13 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 survivor | appos |
| 14 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 neighbour | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lived | cc |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 smoked | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 95 | case |
| 18 | 95 | 95 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 lived | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bad | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 bad | advmod |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 bad | punct |
| 22 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bad | nsubj |
| 23 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 bad | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 bad | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 bad | cop |
| 26 | that | that | ADV | _ | 27 bad | advmod |
| 27 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 survivor | parataxis |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 bad | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 survivor | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a cousin of the trap | the lucky survivor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smoke | participle | Gran's neighbour not said here | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | past | to 95 | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | can | smoking | bad, that property | 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:5.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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