Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 9

"A problem shared is a problem halved" is a saying meaning that talking about a problem makes it feel smaller.

Who acts: problem, saying, talking · What happens: share, be, halve, mean, talk, make · To what, where: problem, saying · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (problem, saying, talking), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 problem	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 problem	det
3	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 problem	nsubj
4	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 problem	acl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 problem	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 problem	det
7	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saying	nsubj
8	halved	halve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 problem	acl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 halved	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 saying	det
12	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 saying	acl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 makes	mark
15	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 makes	csubj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 problem	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 problem	det
18	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talking	obl
19	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 meaning	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 feel	nsubj
21	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 makes	xcomp
22	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 feel	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	share in a quote	participle		a problem not said here		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	a problem	a problem		tree rules
3	halve in a quote	participle		a problem not said here		vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present	a problem	a saying		tree rules
5	mean	gerund	a saying not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	talk	gerund			about a problem	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about problem=Topic
7	make	present	talking			tree rules
8	feel	infinitive	saying		small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: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): R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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