--- title: Asking someone about their boyfriend or girlfriend as a dare is rude… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics description: Asking someone about their boyfriend or girlfriend as a dare is rude; people's private lives are not a joke. Who acts: Asking, private lives. 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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 (Asking, private lives), 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:16 # text = Asking someone about their boyfriend or girlfriend as a dare is rude; people's private lives are not a joke. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 boyfriend boyfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 girlfriend girlfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dare dare NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 22 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | someone | | | about secrets's boyfriend or girlfriend; as a dare | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient about boyfriend=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | Asking | | | | | rude *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | people's private lives | a joke | | | | | tree rules | 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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. 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