--- title: "All but 9" means "all except 9", so if all but 9 sheep run away, 9… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics description: "All but 9" means "all except 9", so if all but 9 sheep run away, 9 sheep are left. Who acts: All, 9 sheep. A sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/12/) [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/) / [Trick questions that catch quick think…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/) / 12 # Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 12 "All but 9" means "all except 9", so if all but 9 sheep run away, 9 sheep are left. **Who acts:** All, 9 sheep · **What happens:** mean, run away, leave · **To what, where:** all, 9 sheep This is a sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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 (All, 9 sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:12 # text = "All but 9" means "all except 9", so if all but 9 sheep run away, 9 sheep are left. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 nsubj _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 9 except except ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | All | all | | | | except 9 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic | | 2 | **run away** | present | all 9 sheep | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | present · passive | | 9 sheep | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:12`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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