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title: Bets and dares are full of silly reasons: a dream as proof ("I did i… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Bets and dares are full of silly reasons: a dream as proof ("I did it in my dream"), a calendar as a weather forecast (snow because it's Christmas), new trainers as superpowers, a big brother as the expert. Who acts: Bets, cousin, bet, my. A sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of 
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# Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 2

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Bets and dares are full of silly reasons: a dream as proof ("I did it in my dream"), a calendar as a weather forecast (snow because it's Christmas), new trainers as superpowers, a big brother as the expert.

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**Who acts:** Bets, cousin, bet, my · **What happens:** be, do, dream · **To what, where:** bet, dream, Christmas · **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 (Bets, cousin, bet, my), 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:2
# text = Bets and dares are full of silly reasons: a dream as proof ("I did it in my dream"), a calendar as a weather forecast (snow because it's Christmas), new trainers as superpowers, a big brother as the expert.
# 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bets	bet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	dares	dare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	forecast	forecast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:parataxis
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	superpowers	superpower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Bets and dares |  |  |  |  | of silly reasons  a dream as proof and a calendar as a weather forecast and new trainers as superpowers; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Charlie's cousin *= cousin* | bet |  | my dream |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | bet | Christmas and a big brother as the expert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dream** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition 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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**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): R5-strong ×4, 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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