--- title: Slow breathing, such as breathing in while counting to four and out… — Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and pare… · tree and pragmatics description: Slow breathing, such as breathing in while counting to four and out while counting to six, helps calm a racing heart. Who acts: Slow breathing. A sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/) / 21 # Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 21 Slow breathing, such as breathing in while counting to four and out while counting to six, helps calm a racing heart. **Who acts:** Slow breathing · **What happens:** breathe in, count, help, calm · **To what, where:** racing heart This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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 (Slow breathing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:21 # text = Slow breathing, such as breathing in while counting to four and out while counting to six, helps calm a racing heart. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.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): no change 1 Slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 6 mark _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 in in ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 out out ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 19 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 racing racing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breathe in** | gerund | Slow breathing *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **count** | gerund | Slow breathing *not said here* | | | | | to four | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to four=Experiencer | | 3 | **count** | gerund | Slow breathing *not said here* | | | | | to six; out *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to six=Experiencer | | 4 | **help** | present | Slow breathing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **calm** | infinitive | Slow breathing *not said here* | a racing heart | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | 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](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:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:21`. **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): no change. **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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