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title: Little Finn jumped in a puddle once and didn't get told off. — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Finn jumped in a puddle once and didn't get told off. Who acts: Little Finn. A sentence of the lesson «"It worked once": one example is not all» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 0

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Little Finn jumped in a puddle once and didn't get told off.

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**Who acts:** Little Finn · **What happens:** jump, not tell off · **To what, where:** puddle

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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 (Little Finn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all.lesson:0
# text = Little Finn jumped in a puddle once and didn't get told off.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all.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): no change
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	puddle	puddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | Little Finn |  |  | a puddle |  | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in puddle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **tell off** *speech: assert* | past · passive · do-support | Little Finn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |

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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.

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**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:164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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