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title: Someone who is heartbroken is very sad because a boyfriend or girlfr… — Feelings and calming down · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone who is heartbroken is very sad because a boyfriend or girlfriend has ended things; being gentle and giving them space helps. Who acts: Someone, boyfriend, gentle. A sentence of the lesson «Feelings and calming down» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Feelings and calming down, sentence 23

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Someone who is heartbroken is very sad because a boyfriend or girlfriend has ended things; being gentle and giving them space helps.

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**Who acts:** Someone, boyfriend, gentle · **What happens:** be, ended, give, help · **To what, where:** things, space

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Feelings and calming down» 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 (Someone, boyfriend, gentle), 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:23
# text = Someone who is heartbroken is very sad because a boyfriend or girlfriend has ended things; being gentle and giving them space helps.
# 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): no change
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	heartbroken	heartbroken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	ended	ended	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | present |  |  |  |  |  | heartbroken *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Someone |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ended** | present · perfect | a boyfriend or girlfriend | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | gerund |  | space | things *= thing* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient space=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | present | gentle |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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**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:23`.

**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): no change. **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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