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title: Spiders do not lay eggs in people's ears; "everyone knows" is not a… — "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason · tree and pragmatics
description: Spiders do not lay eggs in people's ears; "everyone knows" is not a source. Who acts: Spiders, everyone. 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 of every clause.
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# "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 24

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Spiders do not lay eggs in people's ears; "everyone knows" is not a source.

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**Who acts:** Spiders, everyone · **What happens:** not lay, know, not be · **To what, where:** eggs, ears, source · **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 (Spiders, 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:24
# text = Spiders do not lay eggs in people's ears; "everyone knows" is not a source.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **lay** | present · do-support | Spiders | eggs |  | people's ears |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present |  | a source |  |  |  |  | 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:24`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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