--- title: A boy in Denver is about to throw his controller when he loses a gam… — Feelings and calming down · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Denver is about to throw his controller when he loses a game; instead he puts it down, takes five slow breaths, and a minute later he can laugh about it, and the controller is not broken. Who acts: boy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:053-feelings-and-calming-down.lesson:4 # text = A boy in Denver is about to throw his controller when he loses a game; instead he puts it down, takes five slow breaths, and a minute later he can laugh about it, and the controller is not broken. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 053-feelings-and-calming-down.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Denver Denver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 controller controller NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 instead instead ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 breaths breath NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 35 about about ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 controller controller NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a boy in Denver | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **throw** | to-infinitive | a boy in Denver *not said here* | boy's controller | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent controller=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | present | boy | a game | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | | 4 | **put down** | present | boy | game | | | | instead *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 5 | **take** | present | boy *not said here* | five slow breaths | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 6 | **laugh** | can | boy | | | | | about game; late *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **break** | present · passive | | the controller | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:053-feelings-and-calming-down.lesson:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [Feelings and calming down, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/3/) - next →: [Feelings and calming down, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/)