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title: A girl in Dublin kept her worries to herself for months; she stopped… — Feelings and calming down · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Dublin kept her worries to herself for months; she stopped sleeping and eating well until she finally told her mum, who helped her get support. Who acts: girl, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Feelings and calming down» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Feelings and calming down, sentence 6

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A girl in Dublin kept her worries to herself for months; she stopped sleeping and eating well until she finally told her mum, who helped her get support.

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**Who acts:** girl, mum · **What happens:** keep, stop, sleep, eat, tell, help · **To what, where:** worries, girl, mum, support · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl, mum), 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:6
# text = A girl in Dublin kept her worries to herself for months; she stopped sleeping and eating well until she finally told her mum, who helped her get support.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	iobj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | a girl in Dublin | girl's worries | girl |  | month |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sleep** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  | girl's mum |  |  | finally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 6 | **help** | past | girl's mum | girl |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | support |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer support=Stimulus |
| 8 | **worry** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom worry «cognition 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): 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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