Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 3
The earlier you notice them, the easier it is to pause and calm down, and a calm, clear reason gets listened to far more than a shout or a slammed door.
Who acts: you, face · What happens: notice, be, calm down, listen, slam · To what, where: Anger, calm clear reason
This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday 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 (you, face), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 earlier | det |
| 2 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 easier | advcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 notice | nsubj |
| 4 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 earlier | acl:relcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 notice | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 earlier | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 easier | det |
| 8 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pause | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pause | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pause | mark |
| 12 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 easier | csubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 calm | cc |
| 14 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pause | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 calm | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 listened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 listened | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 reason | det |
| 19 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reason | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 calm | punct |
| 21 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reason | amod |
| 22 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 listened | aux:pass |
| 24 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 easier | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 more | case |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 more | advmod |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 listened | obl |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 shout | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 shout | det |
| 30 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 more | obl |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 door | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 33 | slammed | slam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 door | amod |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shout | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present | you | Anger | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | face | pause property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | calm down | infinitive | face not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | listen | present · passive | a calm clear reason | to more | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | slam | participle | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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