Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 0

Most sad or worried feelings come and go, but some stay and stay: for two months Alfie felt flat, couldn't be bothered with football, was tired all the time and cried in the shower for no reason, and he kept thinking: "I've got nothing to be sad about.

Who acts: Most sad feelings, some, Alfie · What happens: come, go, stay, feel, not bother, be · To what, where: shower, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away» of the reflection 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 (Most sad feelings, some, Alfie), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 feelings	amod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feelings	amod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 worried	cc
4	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sad	conj
5	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stay	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 stay	cc
11	some	some	PRON	PronType=Ind	12 stay	nsubj
12	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stay	cc
14	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stay	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 months	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 months	nummod
18	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 felt	obl
19	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stay	parataxis
21	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 felt	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bothered	punct
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bothered	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 bothered	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 bothered	aux:pass
26	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 felt	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 football	case
28	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bothered	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tired	punct
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tired	cop
31	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 felt	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 time	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tired	obl:unmarked
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cried	cc
36	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tired	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 shower	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 shower	det
39	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cried	obl
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 reason	case
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 reason	det
42	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cried	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 kept	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 kept	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 kept	nsubj
46	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cried	conj
47	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 kept	xcomp
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 got	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 got	punct
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 got	nsubj
51	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 got	aux
52	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 thinking	ccomp
53	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	52 got	obj
54	to	to	PART	_	56 sad	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 sad	cop
56	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 nothing	acl
57	about	about	ADP	_	56 sad	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Most sad feelings					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	infinitive	Most sad feelings not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	present	some					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stay	present	some not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	past	Alfie			month	flat property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	not bother	could · passive	Alfie not said here				with football	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
7	is	past	Alfie not said here			time	tired property	tree rules
8	cry speech: express	past	Alfie not said here		the shower		for no reason	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shower=Location
9	keep	past	Alfie					tree rules
10	think speech: other	gerund	Alfie not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	get in a quote	present · perfect	Alfie	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
12	is in a quote	to-infinitive	Alfie not said here	nothing not said here			sad property	tree rules

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:reflection:029-getting-help-when-sadness-or-worry-wont-go-away.lesson:0.

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 ×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.

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