Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 18
Across most hard events, the things that help are talking to someone you trust, putting right what you can, small steps and time; hiding, pretending and waiting alone help least.
Who acts: things, you · What happens: help, talk, trust, put, can, hide · To what, where: most hard events, small steps
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back» 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 (things, 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 | Across | across | ADP | _ | 4 events | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 events | amod |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 events | amod |
| 4 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 talking | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 events | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 talking | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 help | nsubj |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 talking | aux |
| 11 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 someone | case |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 talking | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 trust | nsubj |
| 15 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 someone | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 putting | punct |
| 17 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 talking | conj |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 what | advmod |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 putting | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 can | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | VERB | VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 steps | punct |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 steps | amod |
| 24 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 putting | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 time | cc |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 steps | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 hiding | punct |
| 28 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 help | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pretending | punct |
| 30 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 hiding | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 waiting | cc |
| 32 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 hiding | conj |
| 33 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 32 waiting | advmod |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 talking | conj |
| 35 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 34 help | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | the things | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | talk | present · progressive | the things | most hard events | to someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | trust | present | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put | gerund | the things not said here | small steps and time | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent what=Asset step=Goal | ||||
| 5 | can | you | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | hide | gerund | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | wait | gerund | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | help | present | least property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:030-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back.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): no change. 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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