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title: If you ever think about hurting yourself, tell a trusted adult strai… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: If you ever think about hurting yourself, tell a trusted adult straight away or call a children's helpline (in Australia it is called Kids Helpline). Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Worry and sadness, sentence 15

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If you ever think about hurting yourself, tell a trusted adult straight away or call a children's helpline (in Australia it is called Kids Helpline).

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** think, hurt, tell, trust, call · **To what, where:** yourself, trusted adult, helpline, adult, Australia · **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 (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:15
# text = If you ever think about hurting yourself, tell a trusted adult straight away or call a children's helpline (in Australia it is called Kids Helpline).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
5	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case
6	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	helpline	helpline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
27	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	compound	_	_
28	Helpline	helpline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- 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 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  | ever |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | gerund | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a children's helpline |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helpline=Recipient |
| 6 | **call** | present · passive |  | adult |  | Australia |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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