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title: "All the boys in my class like football" doesn't mean everyone who l… — Some, all, none and "not all" · tree and pragmatics
description: "All the boys in my class like football" doesn't mean everyone who likes football is a boy in my class. Who acts: boys, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Some, all, none and "not all"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Some, all, none and "not all", sentence 19

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"All the boys in my class like football" doesn't mean everyone who likes football is a boy in my class.

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**Who acts:** boys, everyone · **What happens:** not mean, like, be · **To what, where:** football, boy, class · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Some, all, none and "not all"» 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 (boys, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:185-some-all-none-and-not-all.lesson:19
# text = "All the boys in my class like football" doesn't mean everyone who likes football is a boy in my class.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 185-some-all-none-and-not-all.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
2	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | all boys in my class |  |  |  |  | like football | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **like** | present |  | football |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot football=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | everyone | a boy |  | my class |  |  | 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:185-some-all-none-and-not-all.lesson:19`.

**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): R7-rel-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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