Handling anger, sentence 3

A boy in Vancouver notices his chest getting tight when his sister takes his Lego; he stops, breathes slowly, counts to ten, and then asks his mum to help sort it out.

Who acts: boy, chest, sister · What happens: notice, get, take, stop, breathe, count · To what, where: chest, Lego, mum

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 (boy, chest, sister), 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	5 notices	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Vancouver	case
4	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chest	nmod:poss
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notices	obj
8	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 chest	acl
9	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 getting	xcomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 takes	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 takes	nsubj
13	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 getting	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Lego	nmod:poss
15	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 takes	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stops	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stops	nsubj
18	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 notices	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 breathes	punct
20	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stops	conj
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	20 breathes	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 counts	punct
23	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stops	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 ten	case
25	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 counts	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asks	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asks	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 asks	advmod
29	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stops	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mum	nmod:poss
31	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 asks	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 help	mark
33	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 asks	advcl
34	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 help	xcomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sort	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	34 sort	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 notices	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	notice	present	a boy in Vancouver	boy's chest				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chest=Stimulus
2	get	gerund	boy's chest not said here				tight property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	take	present	boy's sister		boy's Lego			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lego=Destination
4	stop	present	boy					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	breathe	present	boy not said here				slowly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	count	present	boy not said here				to ten	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ten=Experiencer
7	ask speech: ask	present	boy not said here		boy's mum	then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
8	help	to-infinitive	boy not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	sort out	infinitive	boy not said here	chest				vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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