--- title: Studies suggest that hitting or smashing things tends to keep people… — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics description: Studies suggest that hitting or smashing things tends to keep people angry rather than calm them; slow breathing out helps the body settle. Who acts: Studies, hitting, breathing, body. A sentence of the lesson «Losing well and winning well» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/6/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Losing well and winning well](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/) / 6 # Losing well and winning well, sentence 6 Studies suggest that hitting or smashing things tends to keep people angry rather than calm them; slow breathing out helps the body settle. **Who acts:** Studies, hitting, breathing, body · **What happens:** suggest, hit, smash, tend, keep, calm · **To what, where:** things, people, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Studies, hitting, breathing, body), 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:6 # text = Studies suggest that hitting or smashing things tends to keep people angry rather than calm them; slow breathing out helps the body settle. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 suggest suggest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 hitting hit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 smashing smash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 tends tend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 15 cc _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 18 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 breathing breathe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Studies | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hit** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **smash** | gerund | | things | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **tend** | present | hitting | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | hitting *not said here* | people | | | | angry *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 6 | **calm** | infinitive | hitting *not said here* | people | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 7 | **breathe out** | gerund | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **help** | present | breathing | the body | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 9 | **settle** | infinitive | the body *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: 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:medicine:067-losing-well-and-winning-well.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Losing well and winning well, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/5/) - next →: [Losing well and winning well, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/)