--- title: "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Zara wants the new light-up trainers. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/) [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/) / "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not… # "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason Lesson 166 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 27 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/0/) — Zara wants the new light-up trainers. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/1/) — "Mum, EVERYONE has them." Mum asks who. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/2/) — Zara counts: Amira, Jack... and that's it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/4/) — "Everyone" turned out to be two. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/5/) — The bandwagon trap says: lots of people do it or say it, so it must be right. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/6/) — But a crowd can copy one loud voice, like the whole class calling the new girl "weird" because one kid said so on day one, when nobody had talked to her. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/7/) — Sometimes the crowd doesn't even know what it thinks. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/8/) — At the school disco nobody dances because nobody is dancing; one girl starts and within a minute everyone is, and afterwards they all say, "I wanted to dance the whole time." - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/9/) — The fix is two questions. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/10/) — And even if it were everyone: is it a good reason for me? - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/11/) — Oscar says nobody reads at home, but the chart says 24 out of 30 do, and reading would still help him if nobody did. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/12/) — The playground takes the mickey out of the claim, not the kid: "Everyone, is it? - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/13/) — Two out of thirty? - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/14/) — That's not everyone, that's Amira and Jack." - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/15/) — The bandwagon trap, also called "everyone does it" or appeal to popularity, treats how many people do or say something as proof that it is right. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/16/) — Count before you say "everyone": two out of thirty is not everyone. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/17/) — Even if everyone did something, that would not on its own be a reason for you to do it. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/18/) — Many people repeating something they all heard from one person is still just one person's claim. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/19/) — Your friends are not a fair sample of everyone; neither is asking only people on your side. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/20/) — If the only voice saying something has something to gain, like a boy selling his cards, be extra careful. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/21/) — Not being invited to a party usually has a simple reason, like a small home, and is often not about you at all. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/22/) — In a crowd, people often wait for each other and guess wrongly what the others want; one person going first can show what everyone really wanted. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/23/) — If you don't know what a word means, ask a trusted adult or look it up before using it. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/24/) — Spiders do not lay eggs in people's ears; "everyone knows" is not a source. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/25/) — Playground equipment is checked for safety before children use it. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/26/) — Clubs are for fun and learning, so the best choice depends on what the child enjoys, not on what other families do. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/27/) — Words people use: "lowkey" means a bit or secretly, "highkey" means very or openly, "shinies" are rare shiny cards, "iconic" means legendary, "case closed" means the matter is settled (here said sarcastically), and "deadly" here means scary-dangerous. - ← previous: [The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards/) - next →: [The rumour that grows](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)