Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 18
Therapy means talking with someone trained to help with feelings, such as anger or sadness; going shows someone wants to get better, not that they are "crazy".
Who acts: Therapy, someone, children · What happens: mean, talk, train, help, go, show · 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 (Therapy, someone, 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 | Therapy | therapy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 someone | case |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 talking | obl |
| 6 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 someone | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 help | mark |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trained | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 feelings | case |
| 10 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 help | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 anger | punct |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 anger | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feelings | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 sadness | cc |
| 16 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 anger | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 shows | nsubj |
| 19 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 20 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 wants | nsubj |
| 21 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 shows | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wants | xcomp |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 get | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 crazy | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 crazy | advmod |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 crazy | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 crazy | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 crazy | cop |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 crazy | punct |
| 31 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wants | parataxis |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 crazy | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Therapy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | talk not said to happen | gerund | Therapy not said here | with someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with someone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | train | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | with feelings such anger or sadness | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feeling=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | gerund | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | want | present | someone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | someone not said here | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | not is in a quote | present | children = child | crazy 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:18.
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 ×4. 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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