--- title: A boy in Vancouver notices his chest getting tight when his sister t… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Vancouver notices his chest getting tight when his sister takes his Lego; he stops, breathes slowly, counts to ten, and then asks his mum to help sort it out. Who acts: boy, chest, sister. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/3/) [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/) / 3 # Handling anger, sentence 3 A boy in Vancouver notices his chest getting tight when his sister takes his Lego; he stops, breathes slowly, counts to ten, and then asks his mum to help sort it out. **Who acts:** boy, chest, sister · **What happens:** notice, get, take, stop, breathe, count · **To what, where:** chest, Lego, mum 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 (boy, chest, sister), 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:3 # text = A boy in Vancouver notices his chest getting tight when his sister takes his Lego; he stops, breathes slowly, counts to ten, and then asks his mum to help sort it out. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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 Vancouver Vancouver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 notices notice VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|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 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 Lego Lego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 34 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | present | a boy in Vancouver | boy's chest | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chest=Stimulus | | 2 | **get** | gerund | boy's chest *not said here* | | | | | tight *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **take** | present | boy's sister | | boy's Lego | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lego=Destination | | 4 | **stop** | present | boy | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **breathe** | present | boy *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **count** | present | boy *not said here* | | | | | to ten | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ten=Experiencer | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | boy *not said here* | | boy's mum | | then | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | | 8 | **help** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **sort out** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | chest | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Handling anger, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/2/) - next →: [Handling anger, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/)