--- title: A bet needs both people to agree; nobody owes anything for a deal th… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics description: A bet needs both people to agree; nobody owes anything for a deal they never accepted. Who acts: bet, people, nobody. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/17/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Bets, dares and silly reasons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/) / 17 # Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 17 A bet needs both people to agree; nobody owes anything for a deal they never accepted. **Who acts:** bet, people, nobody · **What happens:** need, agree, owe, not accept · **To what, where:** people, anything, deal 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 (bet, people, nobody), 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:17 # text = A bet needs both people to agree; nobody owes anything for a deal they never accepted. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bet bet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 9 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 10 nsubj _ _ 10 owes owe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 accepted accept VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | a bet | both people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | both people *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **owe** | present | nobody | anything | | | | for a deal *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent anything=Theme for deal=Goal | | 4 | **not** **accept** | past | people | a deal *not said here* | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Bets, dares and silly reasons, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/16/) - next →: [Bets, dares and silly reasons, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/)