--- title: "Going to see someone to help us talk" means visiting a counsellor,… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics description: "Going to see someone to help us talk" means visiting a counsellor, a trained person who helps couples understand each other, which is a sensible, hopeful step. Who acts: us, Going, trained person, couples. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, Going, trained person, couples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson:13 # text = "Going to see someone to help us talk" means visiting a counsellor, a trained person who helps couples understand each other, which is a sensible, hopeful step. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 visiting visit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 obj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 couples couple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 22 obj _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 fixed _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 hopeful hopeful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | someone | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 3 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | us | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **talk** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | Going | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **visit** | gerund | | a counsellor | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsellor=Co-Agent | | 7 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **help** | present | a trained person and a sensible hopeful step | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **understand** | infinitive | couples | each | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | | 10 | **is a** | present | a trained person and a sensible hopeful step | a sensible hopeful step | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson:13`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/12/) - next →: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/)