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title: Holding on to anger for days keeps you unhappy, so talk it through a… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics
description: Holding on to anger for days keeps you unhappy, so talk it through and try to forgive. Who acts: Holding. 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 14

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Holding on to anger for days keeps you unhappy, so talk it through and try to forgive.

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**Who acts:** Holding · **What happens:** hold on, keep, talk, try, forgive · **To what, where:** you, 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 (Holding), 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:14
# text = Holding on to anger for days keeps you unhappy, so talk it through and try to forgive.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:obl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
7	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	through	through	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **hold on** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day | to anger | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Holding | you |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive |  | Anger |  |  |  | through *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **forgive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:14`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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