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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 (something, you, people), 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:8 # text = If something is truly unfair, say calmly what is unfair and what you would like to happen instead, because people listen to a calm, clear reason more than to a shout. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 truly truly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 obj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 instead instead ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:parataxis 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 26 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 30 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod 31 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 shout shout NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | | | | | truly, unfair *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | calmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **like** | would | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **happen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | instead *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **listen** | present | people | a calm clear reason | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:8`. **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 ×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: [Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder,…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/7/) - next →: [Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/)