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title: Anger at losing can make a child throw things or hit out, and someon… — Younger children, losing and practising · tree and pragmatics
description: Anger at losing can make a child throw things or hit out, and someone smaller is often the one hurt. Who acts: Anger, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 19

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Anger at losing can make a child throw things or hit out, and someone smaller is often the one hurt.

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**Who acts:** Anger, someone · **What happens:** lose, make, throw, hit out, be · **To what, where:** child things, one hurt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 (Anger, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:19
# text = Anger at losing can make a child throw things or hit out, and someone smaller is often the one hurt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
3	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
16	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund | Anger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | can | Anger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | infinitive | Anger *not said here* | child things |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **hit out** | infinitive | Anger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | someone | one hurt |  |  |  | often *property* | 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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**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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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