--- title: Saying a counterexample "doesn't count" or is "weird" doesn't make i… — One counterexample is enough · tree and pragmatics description: Saying a counterexample "doesn't count" or is "weird" doesn't make it go away; grown-ups call this the "no true Scotsman" move. Who acts: Saying, counterexample, grown ups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saying, counterexample, grown ups), 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:9 # text = Saying a counterexample "doesn't count" or is "weird" doesn't make it go away; grown-ups call this the "no true Scotsman" move. # 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 ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 counterexample counterexample NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 29 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Scotsman Scotsman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | a counterexample | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent counterexample=Topic | | 2 | **not** **count** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Saying | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Saying *not said here* | | | | | weird *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Saying *not said here* | counterexample | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **go away** | infinitive | counterexample *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **call** | present | grown ups | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | 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:9`. **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 ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/8/) - next →: [One counterexample is enough, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/)