--- title: A counsellor is a trained person you talk to about problems and feel… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: A counsellor is a trained person you talk to about problems and feelings; they listen, keep things private and help you find ways to cope. Who acts: counsellor, you, feelings. 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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 (counsellor, you, feelings), 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:17 # text = A counsellor is a trained person you talk to about problems and feelings; they listen, keep things private and help you find ways to cope. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 cope cope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a counsellor | a trained person | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | present | you | a trained person *not said here* | | | | to problems and feelings | tree rules | | 4 | **listen** | present | feelings *= feeling* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | present | feelings *= feeling* *not said here* | things | | | | private *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 6 | **help** | present | feelings *= feeling* *not said here* | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 7 | **find** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ways | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 8 | **cope** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | ways *not said here* | | | | | vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: 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](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:17`. **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. **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: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/16/) - next →: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/)