Solving disagreements calmly, sentence 19
Things said or sent in anger are hard to take back.
Who acts: Things · What happens: say, send, be, take back · To what, where: Things, anger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» 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 (Things), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Things | acl |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 sent | cc |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 anger | case |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hard | cop |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hard | xcomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | Things not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send | participle | anger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in anger=Destination | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Things | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take back | to-infinitive | Things not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:19.
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.
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