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title: Now it's sticky AND wrong." To really know, try many times, change o… — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it's sticky AND wrong." To really know, try many times, change one thing, and count. Who acts: taking. 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 12

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Now it's sticky AND wrong." To really know, try many times, change one thing, and count.

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**Who acts:** taking · **What happens:** be, know, try, change, count · **To what, where:** one thing

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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 (taking), 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:12
# text = Now it's sticky AND wrong." To really know, try many times, change one thing, and count.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	To	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	change	change	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | taking *= take* |  |  |  | now | sticky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | taking *= take* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | taking *= take* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **change** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | one thing |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 6 | **count** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:12`.

**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 ×2, 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.

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

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