Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 9

Some things are never worth a dare: falls from walls and roofs, traffic, electricity, stealing, being unkind, skipping class, and online «challenges» with choking, holding breath, medicines, fire or detergent pods.

Who acts: things · What happens: not be, be, skip, hold · To what, where: class

This is a sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» of the everyday 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 (things), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 things	det
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worth	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 worth	advmod
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dare	det
7	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worth	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 walls	punct
9	falls	falls	ADJ	Degree=Pos Typo=Yes	11 walls	amod
10	from	from	ADP	_	9 falls	goeswith
11	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dare	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 roofs	cc
13	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 walls	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 traffic	punct
15	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walls	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 electricity	punct
17	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dare	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stealing	punct
19	stealing	stealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dare	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unkind	punct
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 unkind	cop
22	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worth	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 skipping	punct
24	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 unkind	advcl
25	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 skipping	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 challenges	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 challenges	cc
28	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 challenges	amod
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 challenges	punct
30	challenges	challenge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worth	obl
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 challenges	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 choking	case
33	choking	choke	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 challenges	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 breath	punct
35	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 breath	amod
36	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 choking	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 medicines	punct
38	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 breath	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fire	punct
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 medicines	appos
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 pods	cc
42	detergent	detergent	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pods	compound
43	pods	pod	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 fire	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worth	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	some things		online challenges with choking obl; worth property	tree rules
2	is	gerund	some things not said here		unkind property	tree rules
3	skip	gerund	some things not said here	class		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Agent
4	hold	gerund				vn exist-47.1 «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, 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:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.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, R7-rel-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.

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