--- title: If an adult is shouting, very angry, or acting strangely or confused… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics description: If an adult is shouting, very angry, or acting strangely or confused, the safe choice is to keep your distance and tell an adult you trust. Who acts: adult, safe choice, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adult, safe choice, you), 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:3 # text = If an adult is shouting, very angry, or acting strangely or confused, the safe choice is to keep your distance and tell an adult you trust. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 acting act VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 12 strangely strangely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 confused confused ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | a adult | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **act** | gerund | a adult *not said here* | | | | | strangely *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the safe choice | | | | | keep *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the safe choice *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 5 | **trust** | present | you | a adult *not said here* | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | 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:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Reading faces and voices, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/2/) - next →: [Reading faces and voices, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/)