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title: "Trouble with her nerves" is an old-fashioned way of saying anxiety… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Trouble with her nerves" is an old-fashioned way of saying anxiety or mental illness. Who acts: Trouble, anxiety. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 13

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"Trouble with her nerves" is an old-fashioned way of saying anxiety or mental illness.

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**Who acts:** Trouble, anxiety · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** fashioned way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms 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 (Trouble, anxiety), 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:13
# text = "Trouble with her nerves" is an old-fashioned way of saying anxiety or mental illness.
# 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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
2	Trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is a** | present | Trouble with turn's nerves | a fashioned way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | anxiety or mental illness | a fashioned way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

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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:euphemisms:004-illness-disability-and-babies.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. **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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