--- title: The bandwagon trap says: lots of people do it or say it, so it must… — "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason · tree and pragmatics description: The bandwagon trap says: lots of people do it or say it, so it must be right. Who acts: bandwagon trap, lots, trap. 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. --- [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/5/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason/) / 5 # "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 5 The bandwagon trap says: lots of people do it or say it, so it must be right. **Who acts:** bandwagon trap, lots, trap · **What happens:** say, do, be · **To what, where:** trap · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (bandwagon trap, lots, trap), 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:5 # text = The bandwagon trap says: lots of people do it or say it, so it must be right. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bandwagon bandwagon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the bandwagon trap | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present | lots of people | trap | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | lots of people *not said here* | trap | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **is** | must | trap | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:5`. **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): 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. 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