--- title: After something scary or upsetting, the first step is to be safe and… — Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: After something scary or upsetting, the first step is to be safe and calm down; breathing out more slowly than you breathe in can help the body settle. Who acts: first step, you, breathing, body. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first step, you, breathing, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:12 # text = After something scary or upsetting, the first step is to be safe and calm down; breathing out more slowly than you breathe in can help the body settle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obl _ _ 3 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 upsetting upsetting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 13 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 down down PART RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 18 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 21 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 25 in in PART RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the first step | | | | after something | safe *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **calm down** | infinitive | the first step *not said here* | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **breathe out** | gerund | | | | | | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **breathe in** | present | you | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | can | breathing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **settle** | infinitive | the body | | | | | | 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:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:12`. **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. 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