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title: Doctors have counted millions of people, and on average smoking make… — "It worked once": one example is not all · tree and pragmatics
description: Doctors have counted millions of people, and on average smoking makes people ill and die much earlier. Who acts: Doctors. 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 6

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Doctors have counted millions of people, and on average smoking makes people ill and die much earlier.

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**Who acts:** Doctors · **What happens:** count, make, die · **To what, where:** millions, people, average smoking

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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 (Doctors), 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:6
# text = Doctors have counted millions of people, and on average smoking makes people ill and die much earlier.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **count** | present · perfect | Doctors | millions of people |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | Doctors *not said here* | people |  | average smoking |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
| 3 | **die** | present | Doctors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:6`.

**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, 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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