--- title: The trick to watch for is the excuse: "That one doesn't count", "Wel… — One counterexample is enough · tree and pragmatics description: The trick to watch for is the excuse: "That one doesn't count", "Well, that dog's weird." Calling the counterexample names doesn't make it go away. Who acts: trick, one, counterexample names, Calling. 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Calling the counterexample names doesn't make it go away. **Who acts:** trick, one, counterexample names, Calling, dog · **What happens:** watch, be, not count, call, not make, not go away · **To what, where:** excuse, dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (trick, one, counterexample names, Calling), 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:3 # text = The trick to watch for is the excuse: "That one doesn't count", "Well, that dog's weird." Calling the counterexample names doesn't make it go away. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 4 obl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 11 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:appos|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 Well well INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod:poss 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 27 Calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 csubj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 counterexample counterexample NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: disagree - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the trick *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the trick | the excuse | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **count** *in a quote* | present · do-support | that one | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund | the counterexample names | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Calling | dog | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **go away** | infinitive | dog *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:187-one-counterexample-is-enough.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [One counterexample is enough, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/2/) - next →: [One counterexample is enough, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/)