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title: Never hit; walk away, squeeze a pillow, stamp your feet outside or t… — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics
description: Never hit; walk away, squeeze a pillow, stamp your feet outside or tell an adult instead. Who acts: 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.
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# Handling anger, sentence 6

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Never hit; walk away, squeeze a pillow, stamp your feet outside or tell an adult instead.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not hit, walk away, squeeze, stamp, tell · **To what, where:** pillow, feet, adult · **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 (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:6
# text = Never hit; walk away, squeeze a pillow, stamp your feet outside or tell an adult instead.
# 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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	stamp	stamp	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **not** **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **squeeze** | infinitive |  | a pillow |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme |
| 4 | **stamp** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your feet |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  | instead *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:6`.

**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/).

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