--- title: One dog bit a postman, so "all dogs bite postmen"; one cake burned,… — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics description: One dog bit a postman, so "all dogs bite postmen"; one cake burned, so "I'm useless at baking, forever"; one parking spot at 5 o'clock, so it's "the magic time". Who acts: One dog, dogs, Turning, cake. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One dog, dogs, Turning, cake), 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:4 # text = One dog bit a postman, so "all dogs bite postmen"; one cake burned, so "I'm useless at baking, forever"; one parking spot at 5 o'clock, so it's "the magic time". # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 postman postman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 postmen postman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 25 baking baking NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 forever forever ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nummod 31 parking parking NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:mark 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 39 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | past | One dog | a postman | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bite** *in a quote* | present | all dogs | postmen | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent postman=Patient | | 3 | **burn** | participle · passive | | one cake | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Turning | | | baking | | at 5 o'clock; forever, useless *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | cake | the magic time | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: ["It worked once": one example is not all, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/3/) - next →: ["It worked once": one example is not all, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/)