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title: Breaking your own things in anger leaves you without them when you c… — Spoiling and losing things · tree and pragmatics
description: Breaking your own things in anger leaves you without them when you calm down. Who acts: Breaking, you. A sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spoiling and losing things, sentence 12

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Breaking your own things in anger leaves you without them when you calm down.

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**Who acts:** Breaking, you · **What happens:** break, leave, calm down · **To what, where:** own things, anger, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» 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 (Breaking, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:12
# text = Breaking your own things in anger leaves you without them when you calm down.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	calm	calm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **break** | gerund |  | your own things |  | anger |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | present | Breaking | you |  |  |  | without things *= thing* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **calm down** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:12`.

**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): R8-pos-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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