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title: Early warning signs like a tight chest or a hot face are a signal to… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics
description: Early warning signs like a tight chest or a hot face are a signal to pause, and anger is easier to calm the earlier you catch it. Who acts: Early warning signs, anger, you. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Handling anger, sentence 11

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Early warning signs like a tight chest or a hot face are a signal to pause, and anger is easier to calm the earlier you catch it.

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**Who acts:** Early warning signs, anger, you · **What happens:** be, pause, calm, catch · **To what, where:** signal, Anger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger» 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 (Early warning signs, anger, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:089-handling-anger.lesson:11
# text = Early warning signs like a tight chest or a hot face are a signal to pause, and anger is easier to calm the earlier you catch it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 089-handling-anger.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pause	pause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	advcl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **is a** | present | Early warning signs like a tight chest or a hot face | a signal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pause** | to-infinitive | anger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | anger |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **calm** | to-infinitive | anger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **catch** | present | you | Anger |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:089-handling-anger.lesson:11`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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