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title: If a grown-up's anger ever makes you frightened for your safety, tel… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics
description: If a grown-up's anger ever makes you frightened for your safety, tell another trusted adult. Who acts: anger, you, grown up. A sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big feelings in big people, sentence 10

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If a grown-up's anger ever makes you frightened for your safety, tell another trusted adult.

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**Who acts:** anger, you, grown up · **What happens:** grow, make, frighten, tell, trust, anger · **To what, where:** you, trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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, you, grown up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:10
# text = If a grown-up's anger ever makes you frightened for your safety, tell another trusted adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a grown up's anger | you |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **frighten** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your safety | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | another trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 5 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **anger** |  | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:10`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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