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title: If the only voice saying something has something to gain, like a boy… — "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason · tree and pragmatics
description: If the only voice saying something has something to gain, like a boy selling his cards, be extra careful. Who acts: only voice, boy, you. 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 pragmatics
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# "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 20

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If the only voice saying something has something to gain, like a boy selling his cards, be extra careful.

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**Who acts:** only voice, boy, you · **What happens:** say, have, gain, sell, be · **To what, where:** something, cards · **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 (only voice, boy, you), 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:20
# text = If the only voice saying something has something to gain, like a boy selling his cards, be extra careful.
# 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
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
15	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	extra	extra	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the only voice like a boy *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the only voice like a boy | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 3 | **gain** | to-infinitive | the only voice like a boy *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **sell** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | boy's cards |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful, extra *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:world:166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.lesson:20`.

**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. **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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