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title: Hitting things doesn't let the anger out; studies suggest it tends t… — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics
description: Hitting things doesn't let the anger out; studies suggest it tends to keep you angry, while slow breathing out calms the body down, so the trick is to breathe, shake hands, and be cross later in private. Who acts: Hitting, studies, anger, trick. A sentence of the lesson «Losing well and winning well
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# Losing well and winning well, sentence 1

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Hitting things doesn't let the anger out; studies suggest it tends to keep you angry, while slow breathing out calms the body down, so the trick is to breathe, shake hands, and be cross later in private.

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**Who acts:** Hitting, studies, anger, trick · **What happens:** hit, not let out, suggest, tend, keep, breathe out · **To what, where:** things, anger, you, body, hands, private · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Losing well and winning well» of the medicine 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 (Hitting, studies, anger, trick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:067-losing-well-and-winning-well.lesson:1
# text = Hitting things doesn't let the anger out; studies suggest it tends to keep you angry, while slow breathing out calms the body down, so the trick is to breathe, shake hands, and be cross later in private.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 067-losing-well-and-winning-well.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tends	tend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	nsubj	_	_
22	out	out	PART	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	calms	calm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	down	down	PART	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
36	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
40	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
41	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **not** **let out** | present · do-support | Hitting | the anger |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | studies |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tend** | present | anger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | anger *not said here* | you |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **breathe out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **calm down** | present |  | the body |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | present | the trick |  |  |  |  | breathe *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **shake** | infinitive | the trick *not said here* | hands |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 10 | **is** | infinitive | the trick *not said here* |  |  | private |  | cross, late *property* | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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