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title: A girl in Melbourne felt sad every day after her best friend moved a… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Melbourne felt sad every day after her best friend moved away and told no one; she stopped eating lunch and playing, until her mum noticed and found her someone to talk to. Who acts: girl, best friend, Melbourne, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» of the everyday course of M
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# Worry and sadness, sentence 19

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A girl in Melbourne felt sad every day after her best friend moved away and told no one; she stopped eating lunch and playing, until her mum noticed and found her someone to talk to.

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**Who acts:** girl, best friend, Melbourne, mum · **What happens:** feel, move away, tell, stop, eat, play · **To what, where:** one, lunch, someone, mum · **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 (girl, best friend, Melbourne, mum), 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:19
# text = A girl in Melbourne felt sad every day after her best friend moved away and told no one; she stopped eating lunch and playing, until her mum noticed and found her someone to talk to.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
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	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	xcomp	_	_
23	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs
34	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | a girl in Melbourne |  |  |  | day | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **move away** | past | Melbourne's best friend |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Melbourne's best friend *not said here* | no one |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 4 | **stop** | past | Melbourne |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | Melbourne *not said here* | lunch |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |
| 6 | **play** | gerund | Melbourne *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **notice** | past | Melbourne's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **find** | past | Melbourne's mum *not said here* | someone | mum |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme someone=Attribute |
| 9 | **talk** | to-infinitive | Melbourne's mum *not said here* | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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