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title: What would happen if people never calmed down before acting when the… — Feelings and calming down · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if people never calmed down before acting when they were angry? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 53 «Feelings and calming down» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Feelings and calming down

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What would happen if people never calmed down before acting when they were angry?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** happen, not calm down, act, be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 53 «Feelings and calming down» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t5:1
# text = What would happen if people never calmed down before acting when they were angry?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	calmed	calm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **calm down** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **act** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Everyone would be happier at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t5:o1:1
# text = Everyone would be happier at once
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Everyone |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They would often do things they later regret

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t5:o2:1
# text = They would often do things they later regret
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	regret	regret	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | would | They | things |  |  |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **regret** | present | things *= thing* | things *not said here* |  |  |  | late *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They would always solve their problems much faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t5:o3:1
# text = They would always solve their problems much faster
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **solve** | would | They | their problems |  |  |  | always, fast *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They would never feel angry again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t5:o4:1
# text = They would never feel angry again
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **feel** | would | They |  |  |  | again | angry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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