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title: Teachers study for years; like anyone they can be wrong sometimes, b… — The YouTuber who is right about everything · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers study for years; like anyone they can be wrong sometimes, but "they don't know anything" is clearly false. Who acts: Teachers. A sentence of the lesson «The YouTuber who is right about everything» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The YouTuber who is right about everything, sentence 23

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Teachers study for years; like anyone they can be wrong sometimes, but "they don't know anything" is clearly false.

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**Who acts:** Teachers · **What happens:** study, be, not know · **To what, where:** anything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The YouTuber who is right about everything» 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 (Teachers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.lesson:23
# text = Teachers study for years; like anyone they can be wrong sometimes, but "they don't know anything" is clearly false.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	study	study	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **study** | present | Teachers |  |  |  | year | sometimes *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | can | Teachers *= teacher* |  |  |  |  | like anyone; wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Teachers *= teacher* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | Teachers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clearly, false *property* | 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:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.lesson:23`.

**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, R6-punct-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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