--- title: The earlier you notice them, the easier it is to pause and calm down… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics description: The earlier you notice them, the easier it is to pause and calm down, and a calm, clear reason gets listened to far more than a shout or a slammed door. Who acts: you, face. 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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, face), 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:3 # text = The earlier you notice them, the easier it is to pause and calm down, and a calm, clear reason gets listened to far more than a shout or a slammed door. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 earlier early ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 advcl _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 notice notice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 pause pause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 listened listen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 obl _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shout shout NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 slammed slam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | present | you | Anger | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | face | | | | | pause *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **calm down** | infinitive | face *not said here* | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **listen** | present · passive | | a calm clear reason | | | | to more | tree rules | | 5 | **slam** | participle | | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | 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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/2/) - next →: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/)