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title: A red face, clenched fists or a tight jaw and a loud voice are signs… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: A red face, clenched fists or a tight jaw and a loud voice are signs of anger. Who acts: red face. 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 9

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A red face, clenched fists or a tight jaw and a loud voice are signs of anger.

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**Who acts:** red face · **What happens:** clench, be · **To what, where:** signs

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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 (red face), 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:9
# text = A red face, clenched fists or a tight jaw and a loud voice are signs of anger.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
5	clenched	clench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **clench** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a red face and clenched fists or a tight jaw and a loud voice | signs |  |  |  | of anger | 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:9`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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