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title: Slammed doors crush thousands of children's fingers every year. — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Slammed doors crush thousands of children's fingers every year. Who acts: Slammed doors. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 25

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Slammed doors crush thousands of children's fingers every year.

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**Who acts:** Slammed doors · **What happens:** slam, crush · **To what, where:** thousands

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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 (Slammed doors), 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:25
# text = Slammed doors crush thousands of children's fingers every year.
# 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): no change
1	Slammed	slam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crush	crush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slam** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **crush** | present | Slammed doors | thousands of children's fingers |  |  | year |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient |

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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): 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.

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