Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 8

If something is truly unfair, say calmly what is unfair and what you would like to happen instead, because people listen to a calm, clear reason more than to a shout.

Who acts: something, you, people · What happens: be, say, like, happen, listen · To what, where: calm clear reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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 (something, you, people), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 unfair	mark
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 unfair	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unfair	cop
4	truly	truly	ADV	_	5 unfair	advmod
5	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 unfair	punct
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 unfair	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 unfair	cop
11	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 like	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 like	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 unfair	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 happen	mark
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 like	xcomp
19	instead	instead	ADV	_	18 happen	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 listen	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 listen	mark
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 listen	nsubj
23	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 calm	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 reason	det
26	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 reason	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reason	punct
28	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 reason	amod
29	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 listen	obl
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 listen	advmod
31	than	than	ADP	_	34 shout	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 shout	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 shout	det
34	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 more	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	something		truly, unfair property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		calmly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			unfair property	tree rules
4	like	would	you			tree rules
5	happen not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		instead property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	listen	present	people	a calm clear reason		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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, 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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:8.

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 ×5, 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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