Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 17
When a teacher asks you to stay behind and asks "are you okay?", it usually means they noticed you are struggling, not that you are in trouble.
Who acts: teacher, you, it, children · What happens: ask, stay, be, mean, notice, struggle · To what, where: you, trouble · 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 (teacher, you, it, children), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 asks | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 means | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 asks | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stay | mark |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asks | xcomp |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asks | cc |
| 10 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 okay | punct |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 okay | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 okay | nsubj |
| 14 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 asks | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 okay | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 okay | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 means | nsubj |
| 19 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 means | advmod |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 noticed | nsubj |
| 22 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 means | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 struggling | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 struggling | aux |
| 25 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 noticed | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 trouble | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 trouble | advmod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 trouble | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 trouble | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 trouble | cop |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 trouble | case |
| 32 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a teacher | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | a teacher not said here | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | a teacher not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | okay property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | it | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | notice | past | children = child | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | struggle | present · progressive | you | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | not is | present | you | trouble | 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: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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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