Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 9
"Do it or you're scared" is a false choice (an either-or): there are other reasons to say no.
Who acts: you, no. · What happens: do, be, say · To what, where: claim, 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 (you, no.), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 choice | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Do | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 scared | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 scared | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scared | cop |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Do | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 choice | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 choice | det |
| 11 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 choice | amod |
| 12 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 an | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 reasons | det |
| 15 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 21 are | cc:preconj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 either | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 either | cc |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 or | punct |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 either | 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 | 12 choice | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 say | mark |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 reasons | acl |
| 26 | no. | no | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 25 say | obj |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | claim | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a false choice | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a other reasons | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | no. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:9.
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 ×2. 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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