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title: Dares and cheering egg people on to take bigger risks. — Showing off · tree and pragmatics
description: Dares and cheering egg people on to take bigger risks. A sentence of the lesson «Showing off» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Showing off, sentence 33

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Dares and cheering egg people on to take bigger risks.

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**What happens:** cheer on, take · **To what, where:** egg people, bigger risks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Showing off» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:390-showing-off.lesson:33
# text = Dares and cheering egg people on to take bigger risks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 390-showing-off.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	Dares	dare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cheering	cheer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	risks	risk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **cheer on** | gerund |  | egg people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | bigger risks |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=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:390-showing-off.lesson:33`.

**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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