Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 3
Dares often come with a false choice: "If you don't, you're scared." There are other reasons to say no: it tastes awful, it's dangerous, it's just pointless.
Who acts: Dares, you, choice · What happens: come, be, say, taste · To what, where: false choice, other reasons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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 (Dares, you, choice), 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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 pointless | parataxis |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 choice | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 choice | det |
| 6 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 choice | amod |
| 7 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 scared | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 scared | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 scared | advcl |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 scared | nsubj |
| 16 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 scared | cop |
| 17 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 choice | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 are | punct |
| 20 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 are | expl |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 reasons | cop |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 reasons | amod |
| 23 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 pointless | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 say | mark |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 reasons | acl |
| 26 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 say | discourse |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 tastes | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tastes | nsubj |
| 29 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 reasons | acl:relcl |
| 30 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tastes | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dangerous | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 dangerous | nsubj |
| 33 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 dangerous | cop |
| 34 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tastes | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 pointless | punct |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 pointless | nsubj |
| 37 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 pointless | cop |
| 38 | just | just | ADV | _ | 39 pointless | advmod |
| 39 | pointless | pointless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Dares | with a false choice; often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | a false choice not said here | scared property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | other reasons | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | choice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | taste | present | choice | other reasons not said here | awful property | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme reason=Attribute | |||
| 6 | is | present | choice | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | present | choice | pointless property | tree rules |
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:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:3.
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, R8-pos-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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