--- title: Stopping, breathing slowly and counting to ten before you speak or a… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics description: Stopping, breathing slowly and counting to ten before you speak or act helps you calm down. Who acts: Stopping, 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Handling anger, sentence 5 Stopping, breathing slowly and counting to ten before you speak or act helps you calm down. **Who acts:** Stopping, you · **What happens:** breathe, count, speak, help, calm down · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Stopping, 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:5 # text = Stopping, breathing slowly and counting to ten before you speak or act helps you calm down. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Stopping stopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 4 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breathe** | gerund | Stopping *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **count** | gerund | Stopping *not said here* | | | | | to ten | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ten=Experiencer | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | present | Stopping | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **calm down** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Handling anger, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/4/) - next →: [Handling anger, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/)