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# "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 6

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But a crowd can copy one loud voice, like the whole class calling the new girl "weird" because one kid said so on day one, when nobody had talked to her.

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**Who acts:** crowd, whole class, one kid, nobody · **What happens:** copy, call, say, talk · **To what, where:** one loud voice, new girl, kid · **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 (crowd, whole class, one kid, nobody), 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:6
# text = But a crowd can copy one loud voice, like the whole class calling the new girl "weird" because one kid said so on day one, when nobody had talked to her.
# 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	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **copy** | can | a crowd | one loud voice |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | the whole class |  | the new girl |  |  | weird *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one kid |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **talk** | past · perfect | nobody |  | kid |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |

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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:6`.

**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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