Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 2
Dares work because the brain wants to fit in with the group, which makes risky things feel normal, and online videos show the one try that worked, never the people who got hurt; a real mate never asks you to risk your life to prove anything.
Who acts: Dares, brain, risky things, online videos, one try, real mate · What happens: work, want, fit in, make, feel, show · To what, where: one try, people, you, life, anything
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine 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 (Dares, brain, risky things, online videos), 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 | Dares | dare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 work | nsubj |
| 2 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 wants | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brain | det |
| 5 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wants | nsubj |
| 6 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 work | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fit | mark |
| 8 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wants | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fit | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 group | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 group | det |
| 12 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fit | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fit | parataxis |
| 16 | risky | risky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 makes | ccomp |
| 19 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 show | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 show | cc |
| 22 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 videos | amod |
| 23 | videos | video | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 show | nsubj |
| 24 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wants | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 try | det |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 try | nummod |
| 27 | try | try | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 show | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 worked | nsubj |
| 29 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 try | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 people | punct |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 people | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 people | det |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 try | appos |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hurt | aux:pass |
| 36 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 people | acl:relcl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 asks | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 mate | det |
| 39 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 mate | amod |
| 40 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 asks | nsubj |
| 41 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 42 asks | advmod |
| 42 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wants | conj |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 asks | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 risk | mark |
| 45 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 asks | xcomp |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 life | nmod:poss |
| 47 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 risk | obj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 prove | mark |
| 49 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 risk | advcl |
| 50 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 49 prove | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dares | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Dares | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the brain | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fit in not said to happen | to-infinitive | the brain not said here | with the group | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | feel | present | risky things | normal property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | show | present | online videos | the one try | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent try=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | work | past | the one try | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | hurt | past · passive | the people | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 9 | not ask speech: ask | present | a real mate | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 10 | risk not said to happen | to-infinitive | a real mate not said here | your life | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot | ||||
| 11 | prove | to-infinitive | a real mate not said here | anything | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:2.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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