--- title: Never throw a controller in anger; put it down and walk away for a m… — Puzzles, money and video games · tree and pragmatics description: Never throw a controller in anger; put it down and walk away for a moment, because devices break and people can get hurt. Who acts: you, devices. 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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 (you, devices), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:243-puzzles-and-video-games.lesson:17 # text = Never throw a controller in anger; put it down and walk away for a moment, because devices break and people can get hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 243-puzzles-and-video-games.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): R5-strong ×1 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 throw throw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 controller controller NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 13 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 devices device NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | a controller | | anger | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent controller=Theme in anger=Destination | | 2 | **put down** | infinitive | | controller | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 3 | **walk away** | infinitive | | | | | moment | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **break** | present | devices | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hurt** | can · passive | | people | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:243-puzzles-and-video-games.lesson:17`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [Puzzles, money and video games, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/243-puzzles-and-video-games/16/) - next →: [Puzzles, money and video games, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/243-puzzles-and-video-games/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/243-puzzles-and-video-games/)