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title: When someone is sad, anger and blame can come out; it is better to a… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone is sad, anger and blame can come out; it is better to ask calmly what happened. Who acts: someone, anger. A sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 13

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When someone is sad, anger and blame can come out; it is better to ask calmly what happened.

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**Who acts:** someone, anger · **What happens:** be, come out, ask, happen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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 (someone, anger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:13
# text = When someone is sad, anger and blame can come out; it is better to ask calmly what happened.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp
18	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
20	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | someone |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come out** | can | anger and blame |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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