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title: Hitting or throwing things in anger can cause real injuries in a sec… — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Hitting or throwing things in anger can cause real injuries in a second, even when you did not mean to. Who acts: Hitting, you. A sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Anger and fears, sentence 20

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Hitting or throwing things in anger can cause real injuries in a second, even when you did not mean to.

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**Who acts:** Hitting, you · **What happens:** hit, throw, cause, not mean · **To what, where:** things, anger, real injuries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» 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 (Hitting, you), 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:20
# text = Hitting or throwing things in anger can cause real injuries in a second, even when you did not mean to.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund |  | things |  | anger |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in anger=Destination |
| 3 | **cause** | can | Hitting | real injuries |  |  |  | in a second | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **mean** | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:20`.

**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/).

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