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title: At the school disco nobody dances because nobody is dancing; one gir… — "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason · tree and pragmatics
description: At the school disco nobody dances because nobody is dancing; one girl starts and within a minute everyone is, and afterwards they all say, "I wanted to dance the whole time." Who acts: nobody, one girl, lots. A sentence of the lesson «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» of the world cour
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# "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 8

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At the school disco nobody dances because nobody is dancing; one girl starts and within a minute everyone is, and afterwards they all say, "I wanted to dance the whole time."

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**Who acts:** nobody, one girl, lots · **What happens:** dance, start, be, want · **To what, where:** school disco · **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 (nobody, one girl, lots), 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:8
# text = At the school disco nobody dances because nobody is dancing; one girl starts and within a minute everyone is, and afterwards they all say, "I wanted to dance the whole time."
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	disco	disco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound
14	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	within	within	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	conj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | present | nobody |  |  | the school disco |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at disco=Location |
| 2 | **dance** | present · progressive | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | present | one girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | lots *= lot* |  |  |  |  | afterwards, say *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **want** *in a quote* | past | lots *= lot* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **dance** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | lots *= lot* *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:8`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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