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title: Sadness that lasts for weeks and stops you enjoying things is worth… — Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sadness that lasts for weeks and stops you enjoying things is worth telling a trusted adult about, because help works. Who acts: Sadness, help. A sentence of the lesson «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters, sentence 20

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Sadness that lasts for weeks and stops you enjoying things is worth telling a trusted adult about, because help works.

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**Who acts:** Sadness, help · **What happens:** last, stop, enjoy, be, tell, trust · **To what, where:** you, things, trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» of the everyday 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 (Sadness, help), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.lesson:20
# text = Sadness that lasts for weeks and stops you enjoying things is worth telling a trusted adult about, because help works.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.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	Sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case
20	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **last** | present | Sadness |  |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present | Sadness *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **enjoy** | gerund | Sadness *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | Sadness |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Sadness *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 6 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **work** | present | help |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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.

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