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title: Car parks are usually busiest at weekends and in the evening rush; o… — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics
description: Car parks are usually busiest at weekends and in the evening rush; one lucky spot at 5 o'clock proves nothing. Who acts: Car parks, one lucky spot. 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 pragma
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# "It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 22

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Car parks are usually busiest at weekends and in the evening rush; one lucky spot at 5 o'clock proves nothing.

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**Who acts:** Car parks, one lucky spot · **What happens:** be, prove · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (Car parks, one lucky spot), 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:22
# text = Car parks are usually busiest at weekends and in the evening rush; one lucky spot at 5 o'clock proves nothing.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	parataxis	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	weekends	weekend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	proves	prove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | present | Car parks |  |  |  | weekend | busy, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | present | one lucky spot at 5 o'clock | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |

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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:22`.

**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): R6-punct-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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