--- title: Dares work because the brain wants to fit in with the group, which m… — Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and… · tree and pragmatics description: Dares work because the brain wants to fit in with the group, which makes risky things feel normal, and online videos show the one try that worked, never the people who got hurt; a real mate never asks you to risk your life to prove anything. Who acts: Dares, brain, risky things, online videos. 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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 (Dares, brain, risky things, online videos), 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:2 # text = Dares work because the brain wants to fit in with the group, which makes risky things feel normal, and online videos show the one try that worked, never the people who got hurt; a real mate never asks you to risk your life to prove anything. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dares dare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 risky risky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 19 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 online online ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 videos video NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 risk risk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 advcl _ _ 50 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 49 obj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Dares | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **want** | present | the brain | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **fit in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* | | | | | with the group | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | present | risky things | | | | | normal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **show** | present | online videos | the one try | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent try=Recipient | | 7 | **work** | past | the one try | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **hurt** | past · passive | | the people | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 9 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a real mate | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 10 | **risk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a real mate *not said here* | your life | | | | | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot | | 11 | **prove** | to-infinitive | a real mate *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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