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title: A tummy ache every morning before school can be the body's way of sh… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: A tummy ache every morning before school can be the body's way of showing worry, so tell your parents and teacher. Who acts: tummy ache, way. A sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Worry and sadness, sentence 12

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A tummy ache every morning before school can be the body's way of showing worry, so tell your parents and teacher.

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**Who acts:** tummy ache, way · **What happens:** be, show, tell · **To what, where:** way, worry, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» 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 (tummy ache, way), 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:12
# text = A tummy ache every morning before school can be the body's way of showing worry, so tell your parents and teacher.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ache	ache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	iobj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **is a** | can | a tummy ache  every morning before school | the body's way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | the body's way *not said here* | worry |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worry=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | your parents and teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |

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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:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:12`.

**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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