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title: Saying no to something dangerous can feel hard, but going along to f… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying no to something dangerous can feel hard, but going along to fit in is how many children get hurt. Who acts: Saying, going. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 18

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Saying no to something dangerous can feel hard, but going along to fit in is how many children get hurt.

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**Who acts:** Saying, going · **What happens:** say, feel, go along, fit in, be, hurt · **To what, where:** no, something, many children · **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 (Saying, going), 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:18
# text = Saying no to something dangerous can feel hard, but going along to fit in is how many children get hurt.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
12	along	along	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | no | something |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to something=Recipient |
| 2 | **feel** | can | Saying |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go along** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fit in** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** | present | going |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | many children |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:18`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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