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title: A boy in Colorado slammed his bedroom door in anger; his little sist… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Colorado slammed his bedroom door in anger; his little sister's fingers were in the hinge side, and she needed hospital and a splint. Who acts: boy, fingers, news. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 23

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A boy in Colorado slammed his bedroom door in anger; his little sister's fingers were in the hinge side, and she needed hospital and a splint.

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**Who acts:** boy, fingers, news · **What happens:** slam, be, need · **To what, where:** bedroom door, anger, hinge side, hospital

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday 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 (boy, fingers, news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:23
# text = A boy in Colorado slammed his bedroom door in anger; his little sister's fingers were in the hinge side, and she needed hospital and a splint.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 291-handling-anger-and-fear.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	slammed	slam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hinge	hinge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	splint	splint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **slam** | past | a boy in Colorado | boy's bedroom door |  | anger |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Patient in anger=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | boy's little sister's fingers |  |  | the hinge side |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | past | news | hospital and a splint |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hospital=Theme |

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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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:23`.

**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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