--- title: Doing dares to be liked often backfires: people remember the silly t… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the sp… · tree and pragmatics description: Doing dares to be liked often backfires: people remember the silly thing, not the bravery, and a bigger dare usually digs the hole deeper. Who acts: people, bigger dare. A sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/10-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight/) / 14 # Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 14 Doing dares to be liked often backfires: people remember the silly thing, not the bravery, and a bigger dare usually digs the hole deeper. **Who acts:** people, bigger dare · **What happens:** do, like, backfire, remember, dig · **To what, where:** dares, silly thing, hole This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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 (people, bigger dare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:14 # text = Doing dares to be liked often backfires: people remember the silly thing, not the bravery, and a bigger dare usually digs the hole deeper. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 nsubj _ _ 2 dares dare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 liked like VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 backfires backfire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bravery bravery NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 dare dare NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | gerund | | dares | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=Eventuality | | 2 | **like** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» | | 3 | **backfire** | present | | | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **remember** | present | people | the silly thing and the bravery | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 5 | **dig** | present | a bigger dare | the hole | | | | usually *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=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:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.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): R6-punct-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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