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title: «I don't get my hopes up no more.» His teacher says feeling numb can… — The parent who left, and a new partner · tree and pragmatics
description: «I don't get my hopes up no more.» His teacher says feeling numb can be the heart protecting itself, and that talking to a trusted adult helps, even when the ending isn't happy. Who acts: teacher, feeling, heart, talking. A sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» of the every
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# The parent who left, and a new partner, sentence 37

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«I don't get my hopes up no more.» His teacher says feeling numb can be the heart protecting itself, and that talking to a trusted adult helps, even when the ending isn't happy.

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**Who acts:** teacher, feeling, heart, talking, ending, my · **What happens:** not get up, say, feel, be, protect, talk · **To what, where:** hopes, heart, teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» 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 (teacher, feeling, heart, talking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:37
# text = «I don't get my hopes up no more.» His teacher says feeling numb can be the heart protecting itself, and that talking to a trusted adult helps, even when the ending isn't happy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	csubj	_	_
17	numb	numb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
22	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	_
23	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=21:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **not** **get up** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Jordan's teacher *= teacher* | my hopes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hope=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jordan's teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | numb *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | can | feeling | the heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **protect** | gerund | the heart *not said here* | teacher |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a trusted adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **help** | present | talking |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **not** **is** | present | the ending |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **hope** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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