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title: Standing up and walking away is safer than hitting or slamming thing… — Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar · tree and pragmatics
description: Standing up and walking away is safer than hitting or slamming things in anger. Who acts: Standing. A sentence of the lesson «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar, sentence 33

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Standing up and walking away is safer than hitting or slamming things in anger.

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**Who acts:** Standing · **What happens:** stand up, walk away, be, hit, slam · **To what, where:** things, anger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar» 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 (Standing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:407-rage-quitting-and-ranked.lesson:33
# text = Standing up and walking away is safer than hitting or slamming things in anger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 407-rage-quitting-and-ranked.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	slamming	slam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
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 | **stand up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **walk away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Standing |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hit** | gerund | Standing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **slam** | gerund | Standing *not said here* | things |  | anger |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Patient in anger=Location |

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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:407-rage-quitting-and-ranked.lesson:33`.

**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): 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/).

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