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title: If the person daring you won't do it themselves, they don't really b… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: If the person daring you won't do it themselves, they don't really believe their own claim. Who acts: person, trick. A sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 14

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If the person daring you won't do it themselves, they don't really believe their own claim.

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**Who acts:** person, trick · **What happens:** dare, not do, not believe, claim · **To what, where:** you, fence, own claim

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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 (person, trick), 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:14
# text = If the person daring you won't do it themselves, they don't really believe their own claim.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	daring	dare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | gerund | the person *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | the person | fence |  |  |  | trick *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **believe** | present · do-support | trick | trick's own claim |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer claim=Stimulus |
| 4 | **claim** |  | trick |  |  |  |  |  | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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.

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

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