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title: Saying no is choosing, not being scared. — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying no is choosing, not being scared. Who acts: Saying. 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 4

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Saying no is choosing, not being scared.

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**Who acts:** Saying · **What happens:** say, be, not be · **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 (Saying), 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:4
# text = Saying no is choosing, not being scared.
# 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	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Saying |  |  |  |  | choose *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | gerund | Saying *not said here* |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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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