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title: An adult who is very angry, shouting or acting strangely may be unsa… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: An adult who is very angry, shouting or acting strangely may be unsafe to be near. Who acts: adult. A sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading faces and voices, sentence 18

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An adult who is very angry, shouting or acting strangely may be unsafe to be near.

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**Who acts:** adult · **What happens:** be, shout, act

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday 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 (adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:18
# text = An adult who is very angry, shouting or acting strangely may be unsafe to be near.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 014-faces-and-voices.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	near	near	ADV	RB	_	14	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a adult |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | a adult *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **act** | gerund | a adult *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strangely *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | may | a adult |  |  |  |  | unsafe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | a adult *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *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.

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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:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:18`.

**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): R6-punct-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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