--- title: The coolest comebacks aim at the reason: "If it's not on, you touch… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics description: The coolest comebacks aim at the reason: "If it's not on, you touch it." The kid who dares you to do something risky usually won't do it himself, because he doesn't believe his own claim. Who acts: coolest comebacks, bet, you, kid. 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The kid who dares you to do something risky usually won't do it himself, because he doesn't believe his own claim. **Who acts:** coolest comebacks, bet, you, kid · **What happens:** aim, not be, touch, dare, do, not do · **To what, where:** reason, bet, you, something, own claim · **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 (coolest comebacks, bet, you, kid), 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:6 # text = The coolest comebacks aim at the reason: "If it's not on, you touch it." The kid who dares you to do something risky usually won't do it himself, because he doesn't believe his own claim. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 coolest cool ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 comebacks comeback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 aim aim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 10 If if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 on on ADV RB _ 17 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 21 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 dares dare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 obj _ _ 29 risky risky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 30 usually usually ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod 31 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 because because SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:parataxis 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **aim** | present | the coolest comebacks | | | the reason | | | vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | bet | | | | | on *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **touch** *in a quote* | present | you | bet | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 4 | **dare** | present | the kid | you | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the kid *not said here* | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **do** | future | the kid | bet | | | | kid *obl:unmarked*; usually *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **not** **believe** | present · do-support | kid | kid's own claim | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer claim=Stimulus | | 8 | **claim** | | kid | | | | | | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:6`. **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. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/5/) - next →: [Bets, dares and silly reasons, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/)