Anger and fears, sentence 1
Anger is easiest to calm when you catch it early: a tight chest or a hot face is your signal to pause, and a calm, clear reason is heard far better than a shout.
Who acts: Anger, you, tight chest · What happens: be, calm, catch, pause, hear · To what, where: fear, signal, calm clear reason
This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» of the everyday 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 (Anger, you, tight chest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 easiest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 easiest | cop |
| 3 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 calm | mark |
| 5 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easiest | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 catch | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | nsubj |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 easiest | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 catch | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 signal | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chest | det |
| 13 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chest | amod |
| 14 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 signal | nsubj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 face | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chest | conj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 signal | cop |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 signal | nmod:poss |
| 21 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 easiest | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pause | mark |
| 23 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 signal | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 heard | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 heard | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 reason | det |
| 27 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 reason | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reason | punct |
| 29 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 reason | amod |
| 30 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 heard | aux:pass |
| 32 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 signal | conj |
| 33 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 better | advmod |
| 34 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 heard | xcomp |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 shout | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 shout | det |
| 37 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 better | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 easiest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Anger | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | calm | to-infinitive | Anger not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | catch | present | you | fear | early property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | present | a tight chest or a hot face | your signal | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pause | to-infinitive | Anger not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hear | present · passive | a calm clear reason | good property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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, 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:everyday:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:1.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/1/