--- title: A cousin of the trap is the lucky survivor: Gran's neighbour smoked… — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics description: A cousin of the trap is the lucky survivor: Gran's neighbour smoked and lived to 95, so "smoking can't be that bad". Who acts: cousin, smoking. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["It worked once": one example is not all](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/) / 5 # "It worked once": one example is not all, sentence 5 A cousin of the trap is the lucky survivor: Gran's neighbour smoked and lived to 95, so "smoking can't be that bad". **Who acts:** cousin, smoking · **What happens:** be, smoke, live, not be · **To what, where:** lucky survivor, neighbour 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 (cousin, 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:5 # text = A cousin of the trap is the lucky survivor: Gran's neighbour smoked and lived to 95, so "smoking can't be that bad". # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 survivor survivor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 smoked smoke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 95 95 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 22 smoking smoking NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 26 that that ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a cousin of the trap | the lucky survivor | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **smoke** | participle | | Gran's neighbour *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | past | | | | | | to 95 | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | can | smoking | | | | | bad, that *property* | 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:5`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/4/) - next →: ["It worked once": one example is not all, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/)