--- title: Anger is easiest to calm when you catch it early: a tight chest or a… — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics description: Anger is easiest to calm when you catch it early: a tight chest or a hot face is your signal to pause, and a calm, clear reason is heard far better than a shout. Who acts: Anger, you, tight chest. 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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 (Anger, you, tight chest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:1 # text = Anger is easiest to calm when you catch it early: a tight chest or a hot face is your signal to pause, and a calm, clear reason is heard far better than a shout. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 212-anger-and-fears.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 Anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 easiest easy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 pause pause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 33 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 xcomp _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 shout shout NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Anger | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **calm** | to-infinitive | Anger *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **catch** | present | you | fear | | | | early *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | a tight chest or a hot face | your signal | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pause** | to-infinitive | Anger *not said here* | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hear** | present · passive | | a calm clear reason | | | | good *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | 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:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:1`. **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: [Anger and fears, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/0/) - next →: [Anger and fears, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/)