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title: All-or-nothing thinking uses words like "always", "never", "everyone… — Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: All-or-nothing thinking uses words like "always", "never", "everyone" and "nobody"; one example the other way is usually enough to show it is false. Who acts: All thinking, one example. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's pr
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# Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★, sentence 6

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All-or-nothing thinking uses words like "always", "never", "everyone" and "nobody"; one example the other way is usually enough to show it is false.

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**Who acts:** All thinking, one example · **What happens:** use, be, show · **To what, where:** words, example · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» of the reflection 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 (All thinking, one example), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:6
# text = All-or-nothing thinking uses words like "always", "never", "everyone" and "nobody"; one example the other way is usually enough to show it is false.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	conj	_	_
6	thinking	thinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	conj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	conj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	ccomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | All thinking | words |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | one example  the other way |  |  |  |  | enough, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | one example  the other way *not said here* | example |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | false *property* | tree rules |

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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:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R8-pos-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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