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title: Some dares invent deals nobody agreed to: "If you don't climb on the… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Some dares invent deals nobody agreed to: "If you don't climb on the roof, you owe me a fiver." A bet needs two people to agree, and you can't owe money because someone said a sentence at you. Who acts: dares, nobody, you, bet. A sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world co
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# Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 5

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Some dares invent deals nobody agreed to: "If you don't climb on the roof, you owe me a fiver." A bet needs two people to agree, and you can't owe money because someone said a sentence at you.

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**Who acts:** dares, nobody, you, bet, two people, someone · **What happens:** invent, agree, not climb, owe, need, not owe · **To what, where:** deals, roof, fiver, choice, two people, money · **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 (dares, nobody, you, bet), 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:5
# text = Some dares invent deals nobody agreed to: "If you don't climb on the roof, you owe me a fiver." A bet needs two people to agree, and you can't owe money because someone said a sentence at you.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	dares	dare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	invent	invent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	deals	deal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
6	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
10	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
26	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	owe	owe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
39	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	42	nsubj	_	_
42	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **invent** | present | some dares | deals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | nobody | deals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent deal=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **climb** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  | the roof |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Trajectory |
| 4 | **owe** *in a quote* | present | you | a fiver | choice |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present | a bet | two people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | two people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **owe** | can | you | money |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | someone | a sentence |  |  |  | at you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sentence=Topic |

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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 ×1, 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/).

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