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title: Some smokers live long, but doctors have counted huge numbers of peo… — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics
description: Some smokers live long, but doctors have counted huge numbers of people, and on average smoking makes people ill and die much earlier. Who acts: smokers, doctors, average smoking. A sentence of the lesson «"It worked once": one example is not all» of the world course of Mova's primary school with it
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# "It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 15

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Some smokers live long, but doctors have counted huge numbers of people, and on average smoking makes people ill and die much earlier.

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**Who acts:** smokers, doctors, average smoking · **What happens:** live, count, make, die · **To what, where:** huge numbers, people

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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 (smokers, doctors, average smoking), 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:15
# text = Some smokers live long, but doctors have counted huge numbers of people, and on average smoking makes people ill and die much earlier.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	smokers	smoker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | some smokers |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | present · perfect | doctors | huge numbers of people |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | average smoking | people |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
| 4 | **die** | present | average smoking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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**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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