--- title: "Always" and "never" are almost never true about people; count the t… — The brother who never does anything wrong: doubl… · tree and pragmatics description: "Always" and "never" are almost never true about people; count the times before using them. Who acts: Always, you. A sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards/15/) [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/) / [The brother who never does anything wr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards/) / 15 # The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 15 "Always" and "never" are almost never true about people; count the times before using them. **Who acts:** Always, you · **What happens:** not be, count, use · **To what, where:** people This is a sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» 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 (Always, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:15 # text = "Always" and "never" are almost never true about people; count the times before using them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Always Always PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 conj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 almost almost ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 10 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Always | | | | | about people; true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | time | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | people | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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