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title: Anger makes the body ready to fight, and the thinking part of the br… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics
description: Anger makes the body ready to fight, and the thinking part of the brain catches up only after a few seconds. Who acts: Anger, body, thinking part. 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 4

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Anger makes the body ready to fight, and the thinking part of the brain catches up only after a few seconds.

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**Who acts:** Anger, body, thinking part · **What happens:** make, fight, catch up · **To what, where:** body

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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, body, thinking part), 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:4
# text = Anger makes the body ready to fight, and the thinking part of the brain catches up only after a few seconds.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	thinking	thinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Anger | the body |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch up** | present | the thinking part of the brain |  |  |  | second |  | vn get-13.5.1 «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:4`.

**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, 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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