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title: Revenge usually makes a fight bigger, so tell a teacher instead of p… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics
description: Revenge usually makes a fight bigger, so tell a teacher instead of planning payback. Who acts: Revenge. 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.
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# Handling anger, sentence 13

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Revenge usually makes a fight bigger, so tell a teacher instead of planning payback.

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**Who acts:** Revenge · **What happens:** make, tell · **To what, where:** fight, teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Revenge), 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:13
# text = Revenge usually makes a fight bigger, so tell a teacher instead of planning payback.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	payback	payback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | present | Revenge | a fight |  |  |  | big, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fight=Product |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a teacher |  |  | instead planning payback | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

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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:13`.

**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, 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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