--- title: Worries shrink when they leave your head: writing them down, telling… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics description: Worries shrink when they leave your head: writing them down, telling a parent, or asking yourself «how likely is this really, and what could I do if it happened?» all help the brain let go. Who acts: Worries, things, this, it. 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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 (Worries, things, this, it), 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:1 # text = Worries shrink when they leave your head: writing them down, telling a parent, or asking yourself «how likely is this really, and what could I do if it happened?» all help the brain let go. # 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 1 Worries worry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shrink shrink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 down down ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 19 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obj _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj _ _ 25 really really ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 advmod _ _ 38 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 42 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrink** | present | Worries | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **leave** | present | things *= thing* | your head | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **write down** | gerund | things *= thing* *not said here* | things *= thing* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | things *= thing* *not said here* | | a parent | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Worries *not said here* | yourself | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | could | Worries *= worry* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 8 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **help** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 10 | **let** | infinitive | the brain | | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **go** | infinitive | the brain *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:1`. **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. **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: [Worry and sadness, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/0/) - next →: [Worry and sadness, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/)