--- title: "Most dogs can't climb trees" is true; "dogs can't climb trees" is n… — One counterexample is enough · tree and pragmatics description: "Most dogs can't climb trees" is true; "dogs can't climb trees" is not. Who acts: Most dogs, dogs. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/6/) [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/) / [One counterexample is enough](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/) / 6 # One counterexample is enough, sentence 6 "Most dogs can't climb trees" is true; "dogs can't climb trees" is not. **Who acts:** Most dogs, dogs · **What happens:** not climb, be · **To what, where:** trees · **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 (Most dogs, dogs), 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:6 # text = "Most dogs can't climb trees" is true; "dogs can't climb trees" is not. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 3 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 csubj _ _ 7 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 csubj _ _ 17 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **climb** *in a quote* | can | Most dogs | trees | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **climb** *in a quote* | can | dogs | trees | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=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:6`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [One counterexample is enough, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/5/) - next →: [One counterexample is enough, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/)