Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 9

You don't need a "big reason" to feel low; feelings can grow slowly, and asking for help is strong, not dramatic.

Who acts: You, feelings, asking · What happens: not need, feel, grow, ask, be, not be · To what, where: big reason

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 (You, feelings, asking), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reason	det
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reason	amod
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 feel	mark
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 reason	acl
12	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 grow	punct
14	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grow	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 grow	aux
16	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	parataxis
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	16 grow	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 strong	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strong	cc
20	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 strong	csubj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 help	case
22	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asking	obl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 strong	cop
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grow	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dramatic	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 dramatic	advmod
27	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 strong	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	You	a big reason		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reason=Theme
2	feel	to-infinitive	You not said here	a big reason not said here	low property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	grow	can	feelings		slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	gerund			for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	asking		strong property	tree rules
6	not be		asking not said here			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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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