--- title: Saying no is a skill too: to danger, to touches, hugs or kisses you… — Mistakes, asking for help and saying no · tree and pragmatics description: Saying no is a skill too: to danger, to touches, hugs or kisses you do not want, to strangers online who ask for photos or information, and to cigarettes, vapes and alcohol, which harm a growing body. Who acts: you, strangers. 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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, strangers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:2 # text = Saying no is a skill too: to danger, to touches, hugs or kisses you do not want, to strangers online who ask for photos or information, and to cigarettes, vapes and alcohol, which harm a growing body. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.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 ×2 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 9 danger danger VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 touches touch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 hugs hug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 kisses kiss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 24 online online ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 cigarettes cigarette NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 vapes vape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 harm harm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 amod _ _ 44 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: none - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | no skill | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **danger** | infinitive | | | | | | to strangers | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | you | touches and hugs or kisses *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot touch=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | strangers | | | | | for photos or information | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **harm** | present | | a growing body | | | | to cigarettes and vapes and alcohol | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer | | 7 | **grow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:2`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/1/) - next →: [Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/)