--- title: A short, cheerful no with a reason, then walking away, works better… — Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and… · tree and pragmatics description: A short, cheerful no with a reason, then walking away, works better than a long argument, and others often follow the one who says no; saying no to a group takes more guts than following it. Who acts: short cheerful no, others, one, saying. 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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 (short cheerful no, others, one, saying), 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:14 # text = A short, cheerful no with a reason, then walking away, works better than a long argument, and others often follow the one who says no; saying no to a group takes more guts than following it. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 no no NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 obj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 csubj _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 obj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 38 guts gut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 than than SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk away** | gerund | a short cheerful no with a reason *not said here* | | | | then | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **work** | present | a short cheerful no with a reason | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **follow** | present | others | the one | | | | often *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the one | no | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | no | a group | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to group=Recipient | | 6 | **take** | present | saying | more guts | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gut=Theme | | 7 | **follow** | gerund | saying *not said here* | no | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:14`. **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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