"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 15
The bandwagon trap, also called "everyone does it" or appeal to popularity, treats how many people do or say something as proof that it is right.
Who acts: everyone, bandwagon trap, many people, voice · What happens: call, do, appeal, treat, say, be · To what, where: bandwagon trap, voice, something, proof · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» 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 (everyone, bandwagon trap, many people, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trap | det |
| 2 | bandwagon | bandwagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trap | compound |
| 3 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treats | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 trap | punct |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 called | advmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 trap | acl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 does | punct |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 does | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 does | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 does | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 appeal | cc |
| 13 | appeal | appeal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 does | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 popularity | case |
| 15 | popularity | popularity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeal | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 treats | punct |
| 17 | treats | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 many | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 do | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 treats | ccomp |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 say | cc |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | conj |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 say | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 proof | case |
| 26 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treats | obl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 right | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 right | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 right | cop |
| 30 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 proof | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 treats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | participle | the bandwagon trap not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | everyone | voice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | appeal | infinitive | everyone not said here | to popularity | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to popularity=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | treat | present | the bandwagon trap | as proof | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | present | many people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | many people not said here | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 7 | is | present | voice | proof not said here | right property | tree rules |
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, 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:166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
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