--- title: A calm card or time-out pass lets a child leave a room to calm down… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics description: A calm card or time-out pass lets a child leave a room to calm down before anger turns into a fight. Who acts: calm card, child, anger. A sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Jake and the head teacher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/) / 20 # Jake and the head teacher, sentence 20 A calm card or time-out pass lets a child leave a room to calm down before anger turns into a fight. **Who acts:** calm card, child, anger · **What happens:** let, leave, calm down, turn · **To what, where:** child, room, fight This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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 (calm card, child, anger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:20 # text = A calm card or time-out pass lets a child leave a room to calm down before anger turns into a fight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 pass pass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | a calm card or time out pass | a child | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | infinitive | a child *not said here* | a room | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | | 3 | **calm down** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **turn** | present | anger | | | a fight | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fight=Trajectory | 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:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:20`. **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): R6-punct-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: [Jake and the head teacher, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/19/) - next →: [Jake and the head teacher, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/)