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title: Anger needs a safe way out: walking away, squeezing a pillow, stampi… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics
description: Anger needs a safe way out: walking away, squeezing a pillow, stamping outside, or talking to an adult; it must never come out by hitting, breaking things or saying cruel words. Who acts: Anger. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Handling anger, sentence 2

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Anger needs a safe way out: walking away, squeezing a pillow, stamping outside, or talking to an adult; it must never come out by hitting, breaking things or saying cruel words.

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**Who acts:** Anger · **What happens:** need, walk away, squeeze, stamp, talk, not come out · **To what, where:** safe way, pillow, things, cruel words · **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 (Anger), 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:2
# text = Anger needs a safe way out: walking away, squeezing a pillow, stamping outside, or talking to an adult; it must never come out by hitting, breaking things or saying cruel words.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	appos	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	stamping	stamp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
16	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
28	out	out	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
33	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
36	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **need** | present | Anger | a safe way |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme |
| 2 | **walk away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **squeeze** | gerund |  | a pillow |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme |
| 4 | **stamp** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **not** **come out** | must | Anger |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **hit** | gerund | Anger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **break** | gerund | Anger *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Anger *not said here* | cruel words |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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