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title: Saying no to a dare that could hurt someone or get you in trouble is… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying no to a dare that could hurt someone or get you in trouble is being a good friend to yourself. Who acts: dare, Saying. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 33

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Saying no to a dare that could hurt someone or get you in trouble is being a good friend to yourself.

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**Who acts:** dare, Saying · **What happens:** say, hurt, get, be · **To what, where:** no, dare, someone, you, trouble, good friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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, Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:33
# text = Saying no to a dare that could hurt someone or get you in trouble is being a good friend to yourself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | no | a dare |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to dare=Recipient |
| 2 | **hurt** | could | a dare | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | a dare *not said here* | you |  | trouble |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present · progressive | Saying | a good friend | yourself |  |  |  | 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:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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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