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title: A dare does not make a rude act acceptable; the person who does it i… — Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: A dare does not make a rude act acceptable; the person who does it is still responsible. Who acts: dare, person. A sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 14

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A dare does not make a rude act acceptable; the person who does it is still responsible.

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**Who acts:** dare, person · **What happens:** not make, do, be · **To what, where:** rude act, person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» 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 (dare, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:14
# text = A dare does not make a rude act acceptable; the person who does it is still responsible.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | a dare | a rude act |  |  |  | acceptable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset act=Product |
| 2 | **do** | present | the person | person |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | the person |  |  |  | still | responsible *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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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