--- title: When parents say they are going through a rough patch, they mean the… — Feelings and calming down · tree and pragmatics description: When parents say they are going through a rough patch, they mean they are not getting on well; it is not the child's fault, and it is all right to feel sad and to tell a trusted adult. Who acts: parents, patch. 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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 (parents, patch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:053-feelings-and-calming-down.lesson:22 # text = When parents say they are going through a rough patch, they mean they are not getting on well; it is not the child's fault, and it is all right to feel sad and to tell a trusted adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 053-feelings-and-calming-down.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 18 on on ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 25 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 all all ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:xcomp 36 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | parents | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** | present · progressive | parents *= parent* | | | a rough patch | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through patch=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **mean** | present | parents *= parent* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **get on** | present · progressive | parents *= parent* | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | patch | the child's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | all, right *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **feel** | to-infinitive | | | | | | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 9 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:everyday:053-feelings-and-calming-down.lesson:22`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Feelings and calming down, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/21/) - next →: [Feelings and calming down, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/)