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title: Putting the controller down and walking away for a minute helps the… — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting the controller down and walking away for a minute helps the hot feeling pass. Who acts: Putting. A sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 25

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Putting the controller down and walking away for a minute helps the hot feeling pass.

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**Who acts:** Putting · **What happens:** put down, walk away, help · **To what, where:** controller, hot feeling pass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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 (Putting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:25
# text = Putting the controller down and walking away for a minute helps the hot feeling pass.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.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
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	controller	controller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
11	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | gerund |  | the controller |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent controller=Goal |
| 2 | **walk away** | gerund |  |  |  |  | minute | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | present | Putting | the hot feeling pass |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Beneficiary |

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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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:25`.

**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. **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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