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title: Depression is treated with talking therapy, medicine or both, and it… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics
description: Depression is treated with talking therapy, medicine or both, and it usually lifts; a child did not cause it and cannot fix it alone. Who acts: depression, child. A sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 15

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Depression is treated with talking therapy, medicine or both, and it usually lifts; a child did not cause it and cannot fix it alone.

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**Who acts:** depression, child · **What happens:** treat, lift, not cause, not fix · **To what, where:** Depression

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (depression, child), 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:15
# text = Depression is treated with talking therapy, medicine or both, and it usually lifts; a child did not cause it and cannot fix it alone.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Depression	Depression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
6	therapy	therapy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | present · passive |  | Depression |  |  |  | with talking therapy and medicine | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with therapy=Theme |
| 2 | **lift** | present | depression |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **cause** | past · do-support | a child | depression |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **fix** | can | a child *not said here* | depression |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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