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title: Most grown-ups calm down quickly after shouting and feel bad about i… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics
description: Most grown-ups calm down quickly after shouting and feel bad about it; shouting does not mean they stop loving you. Who acts: Most grown ups, shouting, ups. 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 pragma
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# Big feelings in big people, sentence 9

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Most grown-ups calm down quickly after shouting and feel bad about it; shouting does not mean they stop loving you.

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**Who acts:** Most grown ups, shouting, ups · **What happens:** calm down, shout, feel, not mean, stop, love · **To what, where:** you · **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 (Most grown ups, shouting, ups), 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:9
# text = Most grown-ups calm down quickly after shouting and feel bad about it; shouting does not mean they stop loving you.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
2	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	calm	calm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	loving	love	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	xcomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **calm down** | present | Most grown ups |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | Most grown ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | Most grown ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | shouting |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **stop** | present | ups *= up* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **love** | gerund | ups *= up* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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**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): 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.

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

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