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title: In a crowd, people often wait for each other and guess wrongly what… — "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: people, others, one person, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» of the world course of Mova's pr
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# "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 22

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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.

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**Who acts:** people, others, one person, everyone · **What happens:** wait, guess, want, go, show · **To what, where:** crowd · **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 (people, others, one person, everyone), 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:22
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	7	obl	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	guess	guess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
27	really	really	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present | people |  |  | a crowd |  | for each; often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crowd=Location |
| 2 | **guess** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrongly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | present | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | one person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | can | one person |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **want** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

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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:22`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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