--- title: You do not owe everyone a reason for saying no, so you rarely need t… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics description: You do not owe everyone a reason for saying no, so you rarely need to invent one; «Thanks, but I can't come» is enough. Who acts: You, reason, ». 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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 (You, reason, »), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:8 # text = You do not owe everyone a reason for saying no, so you rarely need to invent one; «Thanks, but I can't come» is enough. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 owe owe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 9 discourse _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 invent invent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 « « PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 28 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** **owe** | present · do-support | You | a reason | everyone | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Goal reason=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a reason *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **need** | present | you | | | | | rarely *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **invent** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result | | 5 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | can | a reason *= reason* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | » | | | | | enough *property* | 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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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): R5-strong ×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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