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title: Charlie bets Noah a chocolate bar that he can hold his breath for fi… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Charlie bets Noah a chocolate bar that he can hold his breath for five minutes: "My cousin can do it." But his cousin doing it (maybe) says nothing about Charlie, and last time Charlie went red at 30 seconds. Who acts: Charlie, cousin. A sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the 
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# Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 0

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Charlie bets Noah a chocolate bar that he can hold his breath for five minutes: "My cousin can do it." But his cousin doing it (maybe) says nothing about Charlie, and last time Charlie went red at 30 seconds.

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**Who acts:** Charlie, cousin · **What happens:** bet, hold, do, say, go · **To what, where:** Noah, breath, cousin, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world 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 (Charlie, cousin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:0
# text = Charlie bets Noah a chocolate bar that he can hold his breath for five minutes: "My cousin can do it." But his cousin doing it (maybe) says nothing about Charlie, and last time Charlie went red at 30 seconds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bets	bet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
18	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
25	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
31	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	obj	_	_
35	about	about	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
43	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed voice=narrator, hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bet** | present | Charlie |  | Noah |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent noah=Recipient bar=Asset |
| 2 | **hold** | can | Charlie | Charlie's breath |  |  | minute |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | can | My cousin | breath |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | Charlie's cousin *not said here* | cousin |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Charlie's cousin | nothing |  |  |  | about Charlie; maybe *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | past | Charlie |  |  |  | second; time | red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:0`.

**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, R8-pos-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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