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title: You can belong to a group without being mean to anyone, and you can… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: You can belong to a group without being mean to anyone, and you can say "No thanks" and walk away when someone offers a cigarette, a vape or alcohol, because they harm a growing body. Who acts: You, someone, cigarette. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday 
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# Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 1

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You can belong to a group without being mean to anyone, and you can say "No thanks" and walk away when someone offers a cigarette, a vape or alcohol, because they harm a growing body.

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**Who acts:** You, someone, cigarette · **What happens:** belong, be, say, walk away, offer, harm · **To what, where:** thanks, cigarette, growing body · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday 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, someone, cigarette), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:1
# text = You can belong to a group without being mean to anyone, and you can say "No thanks" and walk away when someone offers a cigarette, a vape or alcohol, because they harm a growing body.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
9	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:discourse|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	_
26	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	vape	vape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	harm	harm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	amod	_	_
40	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=suggest, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | can | You |  |  |  |  | to a group | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to anyone; mean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you | no thanks |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |
| 4 | **walk away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **offer** | present | someone | a cigarette and a vape or alcohol |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent cigarette=Theme |
| 6 | **harm** | present | cigarette | a growing body |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer |
| 7 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): 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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