--- title: Dares often come with a false choice: "If you don't, you're scared."… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics description: Dares often come with a false choice: "If you don't, you're scared." There are other reasons to say no: it tastes awful, it's dangerous, it's just pointless. Who acts: Dares, you, choice. A sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 3 Dares often come with a false choice: "If you don't, you're scared." There are other reasons to say no: it tastes awful, it's dangerous, it's just pointless. **Who acts:** Dares, you, choice · **What happens:** come, be, say, taste · **To what, where:** false choice, other reasons · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Dares, you, choice), 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:3 # text = Dares often come with a false choice: "If you don't, you're scared." There are other reasons to say no: it tastes awful, it's dangerous, it's just pointless. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dares dare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 parataxis _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 10 If if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 20 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:expl 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 parataxis _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 25 discourse _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 30 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:expl 33 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 just just ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 pointless pointless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Dares | | | | | with a false choice; often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | a false choice *not said here* | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | other reasons | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | choice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **taste** | present | choice | other reasons *not said here* | | | | awful *property* | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme reason=Attribute | | 6 | **is** | present | choice | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | choice | | | | | pointless *property* | tree rules | 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:3`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Bets, dares and silly reasons, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/2/) - next →: [Bets, dares and silly reasons, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/)