Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 14

Doing dares to be liked often backfires: people remember the silly thing, not the bravery, and a bigger dare usually digs the hole deeper.

Who acts: people, bigger dare · What happens: do, like, backfire, remember, dig · To what, where: dares, silly thing, hole

This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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 (people, bigger dare), 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	Doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 backfires	nsubj
2	dares	dare	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Doing	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	5 liked	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 liked	aux:pass
5	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dares	xcomp
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 backfires	advmod
7	backfires	backfire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 backfires	punct
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 remember	nsubj
10	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 backfires	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remember	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bravery	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 bravery	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bravery	det
17	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 digs	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 digs	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dare	det
21	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 dare	amod
22	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 digs	nsubj
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	24 digs	advmod
24	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 remember	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hole	det
26	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 digs	obj
27	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 hole	amod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 backfires	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		dares		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=Eventuality
2	like	to-infinitive · passive				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»
3	backfire	present			often property	tree rules
4	remember	present	people	the silly thing and the bravery		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	dig	present	a bigger dare	the hole	usually property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=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:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:14.

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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