Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 8
Saying «No thanks» and changing the subject is a good way to turn down a dare.
Who acts: Saying · What happens: say, change, be, turn down · To what, where: thanks, subject, good way, dare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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 (Saying), 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 | 13 way | csubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | case |
| 3 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 thanks | det |
| 4 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saying | obj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 changing | cc |
| 7 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Saying | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 subject | det |
| 9 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changing | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 way | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 turn | mark |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 way | acl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 turn | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dare | det |
| 18 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | no thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | |||||
| 2 | change | gerund | the subject | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Saying | a good way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn down | to-infinitive | a dare | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:8.
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 ×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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