--- title: Taking slow breaths and stepping away for a few minutes helps the bo… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics description: Taking slow breaths and stepping away for a few minutes helps the body calm down before you act. Who acts: Taking, body, you. 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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Handling anger, sentence 18 Taking slow breaths and stepping away for a few minutes helps the body calm down before you act. **Who acts:** Taking, body, you · **What happens:** take, step away, help, calm down, act · **To what, where:** slow breaths, body 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 (Taking, body, 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:18 # text = Taking slow breaths and stepping away for a few minutes helps the body calm down before you act. # 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 Taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 breaths breath NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 act act VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | | slow breaths | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 2 | **step away** | gerund | | | | | minute | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | Taking | the body | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **calm down** | infinitive | the body *not said here* | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **act** | present | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:18`. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/17/) - next →: [Facing fears, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/)