"It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 9
Uncle Pat's cold went after a hot drink, but colds go by themselves in about a week.
Who acts: cold, colds · What happens: go
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 (cold, colds), 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 | Uncle | uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pat | compound |
| 2 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Pat | case |
| 4 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 drink | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drink | det |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drink | amod |
| 9 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 12 | colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 themselves | case |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 week | case |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 week | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 week | det |
| 19 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Uncle Pat's cold | after a hot drink | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | colds | week | by people | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location |
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:9.
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): R8-pos-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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