One counterexample is enough, sentence 9

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 · What happens: say, not count, be, not make, not go away, grow · To what, where: counterexample, this · 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 (Saying, counterexample, grown ups), 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	Saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 count	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 counterexample	det
3	counterexample	counterexample	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 count	punct
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 count	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 count	advmod
7	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 count	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 weird	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 weird	cop
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 weird	punct
12	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 count	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 weird	punct
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 make	advmod
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 weird	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	xcomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 grown	punct
21	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ups	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 grown	punct
23	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 call	nsubj
24	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 count	parataxis
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 call	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 move	det
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Scotsman	punct
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 Scotsman	det
29	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Scotsman	amod
30	Scotsman	Scotsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 move	compound
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Scotsman	punct
32	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 call	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 count	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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, 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.

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