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title: You never have to prove anything: «No thanks» and changing the subje… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics
description: You never have to prove anything: «No thanks» and changing the subject is enough. Who acts: You, thanks. A sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 1

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You never have to prove anything: «No thanks» and changing the subject is enough.

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**Who acts:** You, thanks · **What happens:** not have, prove, change, be · **To what, where:** anything, subject

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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, thanks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:1
# text = You never have to prove anything: «No thanks» and changing the subject is enough.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.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	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
13	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | gerund | no thanks *not said here* | the subject |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | no thanks |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

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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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:1`.

**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.

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

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