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title: You can always say «No thanks» to a dare; your health matters more t… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics
description: You can always say «No thanks» to a dare; your health matters more than proving anything. Who acts: You, health. A sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 17

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You can always say «No thanks» to a dare; your health matters more than proving anything.

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**Who acts:** You, health · **What happens:** say, matter, prove · **To what, where:** thanks, dare, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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, health), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:17
# text = You can always say «No thanks» to a dare; your health matters more than proving anything.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:poss
14	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound
15	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	proving	prove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	advcl	_	_
19	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | You | no thanks | a dare |  |  | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic to dare=Recipient |
| 2 | **matter** | present | your health |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **prove** | gerund | your health *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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**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:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:17`.

**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. **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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