--- title: Staying calm helps you think; panic does not sharpen your focus. — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics description: Staying calm helps you think; panic does not sharpen your focus. Who acts: Staying, you, panic, your. A sentence of the lesson «SATs: the reading paper» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/15/) [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/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [SATs: the reading paper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/) / 15 # SATs: the reading paper, sentence 15 Staying calm helps you think; panic does not sharpen your focus. **Who acts:** Staying, you, panic, your · **What happens:** stay, help, think, not sharpen, focus · **To what, where:** you, focus This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: the reading paper» of the english 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 (Staying, you, panic, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:051-sats-the-reading-paper.lesson:15 # text = Staying calm helps you think; panic does not sharpen your focus. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 051-sats-the-reading-paper.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 Staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 csubj _ _ 2 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 panic panic NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 sharpen sharpen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 focus focus NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | gerund | | | | | | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **help** | present | Staying | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **sharpen** | present · do-support | panic | your focus | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent focus=Patient | | 5 | **focus** | | your | | | | | | nom focus «cognition transitive»: poss=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](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:english:051-sats-the-reading-paper.lesson:15`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [SATs: the reading paper, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/14/) - next →: [SATs: the reading paper, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/)