Anger and fears, sentence 5

Slamming a door can trap fingers, break things and frighten others, so you close it gently and talk once you are calm.

Who acts: Slamming, you · What happens: slam, trap, break, frighten, close, talk · To what, where: door, fingers, things, others

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 (Slamming, you), 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	Slamming	slam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 trap	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slamming	obj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 trap	aux
5	trap	trap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trap	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 break	punct
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trap	conj
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 break	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frighten	cc
11	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trap	conj
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 frighten	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 close	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 close	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 close	nsubj
16	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trap	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 close	obj
18	gently	gently	ADV	_	16 close	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 talk	cc
20	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 close	conj
21	once	once	SCONJ	_	24 calm	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 calm	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 calm	cop
24	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 talk	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trap	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slam	gerund		a door		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	trap	can	Slamming	fingers		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
3	break	infinitive	Slamming not said here	things		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient
4	frighten	infinitive	Slamming not said here	others		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer
5	close	present	you	door	gently property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	talk	infinitive	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	you		calm property	tree rules

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:5.

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 ×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.

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