--- title: If you broke something in anger, tell an adult and think how to make… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics description: If you broke something in anger, tell an adult and think how to make it right, because owning up keeps people's trust. Who acts: you, owning, people. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Handling anger](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/) / 12 # Handling anger, sentence 12 If you broke something in anger, tell an adult and think how to make it right, because owning up keeps people's trust. **Who acts:** you, owning, people · **What happens:** break, tell, think, make, own up, keep · **To what, where:** something, anger, adult, trust · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, owning, people), 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:12 # text = If you broke something in anger, tell an adult and think how to make it right, because owning up keeps people's trust. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | something | | anger | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | | Anger | | | | right *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 5 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **keep** | present | owning | people's trust | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Theme | | 7 | **trust** | | people | | | | | | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:089-handling-anger.lesson:12`. **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/). - ← previous: [Handling anger, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/11/) - next →: [Handling anger, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/)