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title: Oscar says nobody reads at home, but the chart says 24 out of 30 do,… — "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason · tree and pragmatics
description: Oscar says nobody reads at home, but the chart says 24 out of 30 do, and reading would still help him if nobody did. Who acts: Oscar, nobody, chart. A sentence of the lesson «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 11

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Oscar says nobody reads at home, but the chart says 24 out of 30 do, and reading would still help him if nobody did.

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**Who acts:** Oscar, nobody, chart · **What happens:** say, read, help · **To what, where:** home, chart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» 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 (Oscar, nobody, chart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.lesson:11
# text = Oscar says nobody reads at home, but the chart says 24 out of 30 do, and reading would still help him if nobody did.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chart	chart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Oscar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **read** | present | nobody |  |  | home |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at home=Value |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the chart |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **help** | would |  |  | chart |  | still |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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:166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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