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title: What matters is what you do with the feeling: anger can be said calm… — Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What matters is what you do with the feeling: anger can be said calmly in words, and fear grows smaller when you talk about it, learn the facts and have a plan. Who acts: you, fear. A sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and bore
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# Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 1

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What matters is what you do with the feeling: anger can be said calmly in words, and fear grows smaller when you talk about it, learn the facts and have a plan.

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**Who acts:** you, fear · **What happens:** matter, be, do, say, grow, talk · **To what, where:** anger, words, facts, plan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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 (you, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:1
# text = What matters is what you do with the feeling: anger can be said calmly in words, and fear grows smaller when you talk about it, learn the facts and have a plan.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 319-anger-fears-and-boredom.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	csubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl:relcl
15	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl:relcl
22	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
29	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | you |  |  |  |  | with the feeling | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | can · passive |  | anger |  | words |  | calmly *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in word=Manner |
| 5 | **grow** | present | fear |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **talk** | present | you |  |  |  |  | about fear | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 7 | **learn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the facts |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Topic |
| 8 | **have** | present | you *not said here* | a plan |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=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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**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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:1`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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