Feelings and calming down, sentence 4

A boy in Denver is about to throw his controller when he loses a game; instead he puts it down, takes five slow breaths, and a minute later he can laugh about it, and the controller is not broken.

Who acts: boy · What happens: be, throw, lose, put down, take, laugh · To what, where: controller, game, five slow breaths

This is a sentence of the lesson «Feelings and calming down» 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 (boy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 about	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Denver	case
4	Denver	Denver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 about	cop
6	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 throw	mark
8	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 controller	nmod:poss
10	controller	controller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	obj
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 loses	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 loses	nsubj
13	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 throw	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 game	det
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loses	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 puts	punct
17	instead	instead	ADV	_	19 puts	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 puts	nsubj
19	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 about	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 puts	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 puts	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 takes	punct
23	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 puts	conj
24	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 breaths	nummod
25	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 breaths	amod
26	breaths	breath	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 takes	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 laugh	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 laugh	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 minute	det
30	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 later	obl:unmarked
31	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 laugh	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 laugh	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 laugh	aux
34	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	conj
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 laugh	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 broken	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 broken	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 controller	det
40	controller	controller	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 broken	nsubj:pass
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 broken	aux:pass
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 broken	advmod
43	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 about	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 about	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a boy in Denver		about property	tree rules
2	throw	to-infinitive	a boy in Denver not said here	boy's controller		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent controller=Theme
3	lose	present	boy	a game		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
4	put down	present	boy	game	instead property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
5	take	present	boy not said here	five slow breaths		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
6	laugh	can	boy		about game; late property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not break	present · passive		the controller		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:053-feelings-and-calming-down.lesson:4.

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): 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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