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title: A silly made-up word can let out anger without hurting anyone. — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics
description: A silly made-up word can let out anger without hurting anyone. Who acts: silly made word. A sentence of the lesson «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», sentence 34

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A silly made-up word can let out anger without hurting anyone.

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**Who acts:** silly made word · **What happens:** make up, let out, hurt · **To what, where:** anger, anyone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» 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 (silly made word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing.lesson:34
# text = A silly made-up word can let out anger without hurting anyone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 406-toxic-players-and-swearing.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): R4-particle ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=3:compound
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let out** | can | a silly made word | anger |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** | gerund | a silly made word *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=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:406-toxic-players-and-swearing.lesson:34`.

**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): R4-particle ×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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