Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 6
The coolest comebacks aim at the reason: "If it's not on, you touch it." The kid who dares you to do something risky usually won't do it himself, because he doesn't believe his own claim.
Who acts: coolest comebacks, bet, you, kid · What happens: aim, not be, touch, dare, do, not do · To what, where: reason, bet, you, something, own claim · 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 (coolest comebacks, bet, you, kid), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 comebacks | det |
| 2 | coolest | cool | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 comebacks | amod |
| 3 | comebacks | comeback | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 aim | nsubj |
| 4 | aim | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 reason | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reason | det |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aim | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 touch | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 touch | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 on | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 on | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 on | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 on | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 touch | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 on | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 touch | nsubj |
| 17 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aim | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touch | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aim | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kid | det |
| 22 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 do | nsubj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 dares | nsubj |
| 24 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 kid | acl:relcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 dares | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 dares | xcomp |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 do | obj |
| 29 | risky | risky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 something | amod |
| 30 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 33 do | advmod |
| 31 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 do | aux |
| 32 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 do | advmod |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 aim | parataxis |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 do | obj |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 do | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 believe | punct |
| 37 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 41 believe | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 believe | nsubj |
| 39 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 believe | aux |
| 40 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 believe | advmod |
| 41 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 do | advcl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 claim | nmod:poss |
| 43 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 claim | amod |
| 44 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 believe | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aim | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aim | present | the coolest comebacks | the reason | vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | bet | on property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | touch in a quote | present | you | bet | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | dare | present | the kid | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | the kid not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | not do | future | the kid | bet | kid obl:unmarked; usually property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | not believe | present · do-support | kid | kid's own claim | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer claim=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | claim | kid | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:6.
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, 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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