--- title: "Do it or you're scared" is a false choice (an either-or): there are… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics description: "Do it or you're scared" is a false choice (an either-or): there are other reasons to say no. Who acts: you, no.. 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. --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 9 "Do it or you're scared" is a false choice (an either-or): there are other reasons to say no. **Who acts:** you, no. · **What happens:** do, be, say · **To what, where:** claim, 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 (you, no.), 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:9 # text = "Do it or you're scared" is a false choice (an either-or): there are other reasons to say no. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 nsubj _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 15 either either CCONJ CC _ 21 cc:preconj _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 19 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 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 12 parataxis _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 no. no NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | | claim | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a false choice | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a other reasons | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | no. | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/7/) - next →: [Bets, dares and silly reasons, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/)