Handling anger, sentence 18
Taking slow breaths and stepping away for a few minutes helps the body calm down before you act.
Who acts: Taking, body, you · What happens: take, step away, help, calm down, act · To what, where: slow breaths, body
This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger» 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 (Taking, body, 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 helps | csubj |
| 2 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 breaths | amod |
| 3 | breaths | breath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stepping | cc |
| 5 | stepping | step | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Taking | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 stepping | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minutes | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minutes | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minutes | amod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stepping | obl |
| 11 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 helps | obj |
| 14 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 helps | xcomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 calm | compound:prt |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 act | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 act | nsubj |
| 18 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 calm | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | slow breaths | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||||
| 2 | step away | gerund | minute | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | present | Taking | the body | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | calm down | infinitive | the body not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | act | present | you | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: 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:089-handling-anger.lesson:18.
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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