--- title: Depression is an illness where a person feels sad, empty or tired fo… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: Depression is an illness where a person feels sad, empty or tired for weeks, and things they enjoyed stop feeling good; it is more than a bad day. Who acts: Depression, person, things. 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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 (Depression, person, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:14 # text = Depression is an illness where a person feels sad, empty or tired for weeks, and things they enjoyed stop feeling good; it is more than a bad day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Depression depression NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 22 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 parataxis _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Depression | a illness | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | present | a person | | | | week | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **enjoy** | past | things *= thing* | things *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 4 | **stop** | infinitive | things | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **feel** | gerund | things *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | present | person | | | | day | more *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](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:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. 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