--- title: A boy in Ohio threw his tablet across the room when he lost a game;… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio threw his tablet across the room when he lost a game; the screen smashed, and he had to save his pocket money for months for a new one. Who acts: boy, screen. 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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, screen), 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:15 # text = A boy in Ohio threw his tablet across the room when he lost a game; the screen smashed, and he had to save his pocket money for months for a new one. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 across across ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 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 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 smashed smashed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | past | a boy in Ohio | boy's tablet | | the room | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme | | 2 | **lose** | past | boy | a game | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | | 3 | **smashed** | past | the screen | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | screen | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **save** | to-infinitive | screen *not said here* | screen's pocket money | | | month | for a new one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for one=Source | 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:15`. **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: [Handling anger, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/14/) - next →: [Handling anger, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/)