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title: Saying «No thanks» and changing the subject is a good way to turn do… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying «No thanks» and changing the subject is a good way to turn down a dare. Who acts: Saying. 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 8

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Saying «No thanks» and changing the subject is a good way to turn down a dare.

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**Who acts:** Saying · **What happens:** say, change, be, turn down · **To what, where:** thanks, subject, good way, dare · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Saying), 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:8
# text = Saying «No thanks» and changing the subject is a good way to turn down a dare.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	case	_	_
3	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:discourse|HaikuPos=INTJ:UH:_
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 thanks |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |
| 2 | **change** | gerund |  | the subject |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Saying | a good way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn down** | to-infinitive |  | a dare |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:8`.

**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 ×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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