--- title: «A gentle answer turns away wrath» is advice for the playground toda… — Psalms and Proverbs · tree and pragmatics description: «A gentle answer turns away wrath» is advice for the playground today: a calm word can stop a fight that a harsh word would start. Who acts: gentle answer, calm word, harsh word. 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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 (gentle answer, calm word, harsh word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:4 # text = «A gentle answer turns away wrath» is advice for the playground today: a calm word can stop a fight that a harsh word would start. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 011-psalms-and-proverbs.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): no change 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 csubj _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 wrath wrath NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn away** *in a quote* | present | a gentle answer | wrath | | | | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | advice | | | today | for the playground | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | can | a calm word | a fight | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality | | 4 | **start** | would | a harsh word | a fight | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | 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:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:4`. **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): no change. **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: [Psalms and Proverbs, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/3/) - next →: [Psalms and Proverbs, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/)