Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 17

A counsellor is a trained person you talk to about problems and feelings; they listen, keep things private and help you find ways to cope.

Who acts: counsellor, you, feelings · What happens: train, be, talk, listen, keep, help · To what, where: trained person, things, you, ways

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (counsellor, you, feelings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 counsellor	det
2	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
5	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 talk	nsubj
8	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 person	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 problems	case
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 problems	case
11	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talk	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feelings	cc
13	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 problems	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 listen	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 listen	nsubj
16	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
18	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 listen	conj
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keep	obj
20	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 keep	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
22	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 listen	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 help	xcomp
25	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 find	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cope	mark
27	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ways	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	train	participle				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a counsellor	a trained person		tree rules
3	talk	present	you	a trained person not said here	to problems and feelings	tree rules
4	listen	present	feelings = feeling			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	keep	present	feelings = feeling not said here	things	private property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
6	help	present	feelings = feeling not said here	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
7	find	infinitive	you not said here	ways		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
8	cope	to-infinitive	you not said here	ways not said here		vn cope-83-1 «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, 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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:17.

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. 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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