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title: Most dogs can't climb trees well, but some can scramble up. — One counterexample is enough · tree and pragmatics
description: Most dogs can't climb trees well, but some can scramble up. Who acts: Most dogs, some. A sentence of the lesson «One counterexample is enough» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# One counterexample is enough, sentence 15

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Most dogs can't climb trees well, but some can scramble up.

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**Who acts:** Most dogs, some · **What happens:** not climb, scramble up · **To what, where:** trees

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This is a sentence of the lesson «One counterexample is enough» 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 (Most dogs, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:187-one-counterexample-is-enough.lesson:15
# text = Most dogs can't climb trees well, but some can scramble up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 187-one-counterexample-is-enough.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	scramble	scramble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** **climb** | can | Most dogs | trees |  |  |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **scramble up** | can | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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:187-one-counterexample-is-enough.lesson:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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