Handling anger, sentence 2
Anger needs a safe way out: walking away, squeezing a pillow, stamping outside, or talking to an adult; it must never come out by hitting, breaking things or saying cruel words.
Who acts: Anger · What happens: need, walk away, squeeze, stamp, talk, not come out · To what, where: safe way, pillow, things, cruel words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Anger), 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 | Anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 way | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 walking | punct |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 way | appos |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 walking | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 squeezing | punct |
| 11 | squeezing | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 walking | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pillow | det |
| 13 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 squeezing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stamping | punct |
| 15 | stamping | stamp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 walking | conj |
| 16 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 15 stamping | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 talking | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 talking | cc |
| 19 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 stamping | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 adult | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 adult | det |
| 22 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 talking | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 come | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 come | advmod |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 needs | parataxis |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 hitting | mark |
| 30 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 come | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 breaking | punct |
| 32 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 hitting | conj |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 breaking | obj |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 saying | cc |
| 35 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 hitting | conj |
| 36 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 words | amod |
| 37 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 saying | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Anger | a safe way | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk away | gerund | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | squeeze | gerund | a pillow | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stamp | gerund | outside property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | to a adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | not come out | must | Anger | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | hit | gerund | Anger not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | break | gerund | Anger not said here | things | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient | ||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | gerund | Anger not said here | cruel words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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