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title: In a group, the wish to fit in makes risky things feel normal; this… — Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a group, the wish to fit in makes risky things feel normal; this is peer pressure. Who acts: wish, risky things, this. A sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 13

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In a group, the wish to fit in makes risky things feel normal; this is peer pressure.

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**Who acts:** wish, risky things, this · **What happens:** fit in, make, feel, be · **To what, where:** group, peer pressure

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine 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 (wish, risky things, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:13
# text = In a group, the wish to fit in makes risky things feel normal; this is peer pressure.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	risky	risky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	peer	peer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **fit in** | to-infinitive | the wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | the wish |  |  | a group |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | present | risky things |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | peer pressure |  |  |  |  | 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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**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.

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