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title: Saying no to a risky dare, like a jump you are not ready for, is a s… — Sam is scared: fear is normal · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying no to a risky dare, like a jump you are not ready for, is a sensible choice, not a weakness. Who acts: you, Saying. A sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 24

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Saying no to a risky dare, like a jump you are not ready for, is a sensible choice, not a weakness.

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**Who acts:** you, Saying · **What happens:** say, not be, be · **To what, where:** no, risky dare, jump, sensible choice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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, Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:24
# text = Saying no to a risky dare, like a jump you are not ready for, is a sensible choice, not a weakness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.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	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	risky	risky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:appos
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | a risky dare like a jump |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to dare=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | you | a jump *not said here* |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Saying | a sensible choice and a weakness |  |  |  |  | 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:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:24`.

**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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