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title: Most colds go away by themselves in about 7 to 10 days, which is why… — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics
description: Most colds go away by themselves in about 7 to 10 days, which is why many "cures" seem to work; whiskey is never for children. Who acts: Most colds, 7 days, whiskey. 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 t
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# "It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 17

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Most colds go away by themselves in about 7 to 10 days, which is why many "cures" seem to work; whiskey is never for children.

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**Who acts:** Most colds, 7 days, whiskey · **What happens:** go away, be, work, not be

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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 (Most colds, 7 days, whiskey), 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:17
# text = Most colds go away by themselves in about 7 to 10 days, which is why many "cures" seem to work; whiskey is never for children.
# 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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	cures	cure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	whiskey	whiskey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **go away** | present | Most colds |  |  |  | day | by people; away *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | 7 days |  |  |  |  | seem *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | 7 days *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | whiskey |  |  |  |  | for children | tree rules |

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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): 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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