--- title: Some things are never worth a dare: falls from walls and roofs, traf… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics description: Some things are never worth a dare: falls from walls and roofs, traffic, electricity, stealing, being unkind, skipping class, and online «challenges» with choking, holding breath, medicines, fire or detergent pods. Who acts: things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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:9 # text = Some things are never worth a dare: falls from walls and roofs, traffic, electricity, stealing, being unkind, skipping class, and online «challenges» with choking, holding breath, medicines, fire or detergent pods. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dare dare NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 falls falls ADJ GW Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes 11 amod _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 9 goeswith _ _ 11 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 stealing stealing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 22 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 skipping skip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 25 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 online online ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 challenges challenge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 33 choking choke NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 amod _ _ 36 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 detergent detergent NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 pods pod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | some things | | | | | online challenges with choking *obl*; worth *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | gerund | some things *not said here* | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **skip** | gerund | some things *not said here* | class | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Agent | | 4 | **hold** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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](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: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 ×1, R7-rel-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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