--- title: Some, all, none and "not all" — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Some, all, none and "not all"», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Small words do big jobs. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/) [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/) / Some, all, none and "not all" # Some, all, none and "not all" Lesson 185 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/0/) — Small words do big jobs. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/1/) — "All" means every single one, "none" means not one, "some" means at least one, and "not all" means at least one isn't. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/2/) — The classic mix-up is hearing "not all" as "none": "Not all teachers are strict" doesn't mean no teacher is strict. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/3/) — Mr Brown still gives looks that could boil water. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/4/) — Two things in the same big group are not the same thing: cats are animals and dogs are animals, but cats are not dogs. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/5/) — Max's sister: "All carrots are food, all chips are food, so carrots are chips? - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/6/) — I wish, Max." - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/7/) — Groups inside groups do work: if all bloops are razzies and all razzies are lazzies, then all bloops are lazzies, even with made-up words. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/8/) — Draw a circle inside a circle inside a circle and you can see it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/9/) — And an "all" only goes one way: "all the boys in my class like football" says nothing about who else likes football. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/10/) — Two things being in the same big group doesn't make them the same: cats and dogs are both animals, but cats are not dogs. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/11/) — If all A are B and all B are C, then all A are C; it works even with made-up words, like circles inside circles. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/12/) — "Some" means at least one; it doesn't say how many, and it doesn't mean all. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/13/) — "Not all" means at least one isn't; it doesn't mean none. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/14/) — "Not everyone liked the film" means at least one person didn't like it; others still could have. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/15/) — Not all birds can fly: penguins, ostriches, emus and kiwis are birds that can't, but all birds have feathers. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/16/) — In everyday talk "some" often hints "not all", but it doesn't promise it: if every sweet in the bag is strawberry, "some are strawberry" is still true. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/17/) — A puppy is a young dog, so "no dogs allowed" includes puppies. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/18/) — "Not every kid got a sticker" doesn't say which kids missed out. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/19/) — "All the boys in my class like football" doesn't mean everyone who likes football is a boy in my class. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/20/) — Words people use: "I wish" means "sadly that's not true"; "sick" (young people) means great; "bare" (London) means loads of; "fam" (London) means mates; "howay" (North East England) means "come on"; "gadgie" (North East) means a man; "footy" (UK, Australia) means football; "yeah nah" (Australia, NZ) means no. - ← previous: ["If... then..." and its traps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/) - next →: ["How do you know?"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)