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title: Sadness is a normal feeling for everyone, boys and girls alike, and… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: Sadness is a normal feeling for everyone, boys and girls alike, and crying is a healthy way to let it out; holding feelings in does not make them go away. Who acts: Sadness, holding, things. A sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Worry and sadness, sentence 2

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Sadness is a normal feeling for everyone, boys and girls alike, and crying is a healthy way to let it out; holding feelings in does not make them go away.

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**Who acts:** Sadness, holding, things · **What happens:** be, cry, let out, hold in, not make, not go away · **To what, where:** normal feeling, healthy way, Sadness, feelings, things

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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 (Sadness, holding, things), 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:2
# text = Sadness is a normal feeling for everyone, boys and girls alike, and crying is a healthy way to let it out; holding feelings in does not make them go away.
# 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	Sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	csubj	_	_
26	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Sadness | a normal feeling and a healthy way |  |  |  | for everyone | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a healthy way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let out** | to-infinitive | Sadness *not said here* | Sadness |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **hold in** | gerund |  | feelings |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | holding | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **go away** | infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): 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.

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