Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 13
If a friend says they wish they weren't here, or you learn a friend is hurting themselves, tell a trusted adult straight away, even if they asked you not to; you can also call a helpline.
Who acts: friend, doctor, you · What happens: say, wish, not be, learn, hurt, tell · To what, where: doctor, trusted adult, you, helpline · 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 (friend, doctor, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 says | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 here | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | cop |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 here | advmod |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 wish | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 learn | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 learn | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 learn | nsubj |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hurting | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hurting | aux |
| 18 | hurting | hurt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 learn | ccomp |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 hurting | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 adult | det |
| 23 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 adult | amod |
| 24 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | obj |
| 25 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 26 away | advmod |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 tell | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asked | punct |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 asked | advmod |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 asked | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 asked | nsubj |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tell | advcl |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 asked | obj |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 asked | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 not | fixed |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 call | punct |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 call | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 call | aux |
| 38 | also | also | ADV | _ | 39 call | advmod |
| 39 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 helpline | det |
| 41 | helpline | helpline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 call | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish | present | doctor | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | doctor | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | learn | present | you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hurt | present · progressive | a friend | doctor | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Patient | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a friend not said here | a trusted adult | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||
| 7 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | not ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | past | doctor | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | call | can | you | a helpline | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helpline=Recipient |
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: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 ×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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