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title: One bad try at something new is normal; change one thing, like the o… — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics
description: One bad try at something new is normal; change one thing, like the oven temperature, and try again. Who acts: One bad try. 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 21

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One bad try at something new is normal; change one thing, like the oven temperature, and try again.

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**Who acts:** One bad try · **What happens:** be, change, try · **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 (One bad try), 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:21
# text = One bad try at something new is normal; change one thing, like the oven temperature, and try again.
# 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 ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:csubj
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | One bad try at something |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | infinitive |  | one thing |  |  |  | like the oven temperature | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:21`.

**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/).

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