Losing well and winning well, sentence 6

Studies suggest that hitting or smashing things tends to keep people angry rather than calm them; slow breathing out helps the body settle.

Who acts: Studies, hitting, breathing, body · What happens: suggest, hit, smash, tend, keep, calm · To what, where: things, people, body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Losing well and winning well» of the medicine 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 (Studies, hitting, breathing, body), 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	Studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 suggest	nsubj
2	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 tends	mark
4	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 tends	csubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 smashing	cc
6	smashing	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hitting	conj
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smashing	obj
8	tends	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 suggest	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tends	xcomp
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	obj
12	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp
13	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 calm	cc
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 rather	fixed
15	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 keep	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 calm	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 helps	punct
18	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 breathing	amod
19	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 helps	csubj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 breathing	compound:prt
21	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 suggest	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 body	det
23	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 helps	obj
24	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 helps	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 suggest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	Studies			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hit	gerund				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	smash	gerund		things		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	tend	present	hitting			tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	hitting not said here	people	angry property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
6	calm	infinitive	hitting not said here	people		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
7	breathe out	gerund				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	help	present	breathing	the body		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme
9	settle	infinitive	the body not said here			vn correspond-36.1 «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:medicine:067-losing-well-and-winning-well.lesson:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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