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title: Peer pressure is when friends push you to do something you don't wan… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics
description: Peer pressure is when friends push you to do something you don't want to do; saying no is braver than giving in. Who acts: friends, you, saying. A sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 14

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Peer pressure is when friends push you to do something you don't want to do; saying no is braver than giving in.

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**Who acts:** friends, you, saying · **What happens:** be, do, not want, say, give in · **To what, where:** something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» 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 (friends, you, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:14
# text = Peer pressure is when friends push you to do something you don't want to do; saying no is braver than giving in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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 ×1
1	Peer	peer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	csubj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	braver	braver	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | friends |  |  |  |  | push *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | friends *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | saying |  |  |  |  | braver *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **give in** | gerund | saying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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