--- title: "Going through a rough patch" can mean being depressed or in a menta… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: "Going through a rough patch" can mean being depressed or in a mental health crisis, or simply having a hard time. Who acts: Going. 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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 (Going), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:12 # text = "Going through a rough patch" can mean being depressed or in a mental health crisis, or simply having a hard time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 004-illness-disability-and-babies.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 ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 3 through through ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 depressed depressed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 crisis crisis NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 simply simply ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | | | | a rough patch | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through patch=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **mean** | can | Going | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | Going *not said here* | | | | | depressed *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | gerund | Going *not said here* | | | | time | simply *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:euphemisms:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:12`. **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 ×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: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/11/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/)