--- title: In any week some bad luck happens to everyone, so a "curse" can alwa… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics description: In any week some bad luck happens to everyone, so a "curse" can always find something to blame. Who acts: bad luck, curse. A sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/) / 20 # Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 20 In any week some bad luck happens to everyone, so a "curse" can always find something to blame. **Who acts:** bad luck, curse · **What happens:** happen, find, blame · **To what, where:** something This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» 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 (bad luck, curse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:20 # text = In any week some bad luck happens to everyone, so a "curse" can always find something to blame. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson # annotation = 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 5 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 curse curse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 18 advmod _ _ 18 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 19 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | some bad luck | | | | week | to everyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **find** | can | a curse | something | | | | always *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 3 | **blame** | to-infinitive | a curse *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:20`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/19/) - next →: [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/)