--- title: Worry is the feeling of thinking again and again about something tha… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics description: Worry is the feeling of thinking again and again about something that might go wrong; a little worry helps you prepare, but too much worry makes rare things feel certain and spoils sleep and fun. Who acts: Worry, feeling, little worry, you. 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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 (Worry, feeling, little worry, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:0 # text = Worry is the feeling of thinking again and again about something that might go wrong; a little worry helps you prepare, but too much worry makes rare things feel certain and spoils sleep and fun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 091-worry-and-sadness.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 Worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 prepare prepare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 spoils spoil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 35 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Worry | the feeling | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the feeling *not said here* | | | | again | about something | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic | | 3 | **go** | might | | | | | | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | a little worry | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **prepare** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | present | much worry | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **feel** | infinitive | rare things | | | | | certain *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **spoil** | present | much worry *not said here* | sleep and fun | | | | | tree rules | 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:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:0`. **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: [Facing fears, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/18/) - next →: [Worry and sadness, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/)