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title: Worry and sadness kept secret for a long time can cause stomach ache… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: Worry and sadness kept secret for a long time can cause stomach aches, headaches and bad sleep. Who acts: Worry. 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 20

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Worry and sadness kept secret for a long time can cause stomach aches, headaches and bad sleep.

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**Who acts:** Worry · **What happens:** keep, cause · **To what, where:** Worry, stomach aches

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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 (Worry), 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:20
# text = Worry and sadness kept secret for a long time can cause stomach aches, headaches and bad sleep.
# 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	Worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
5	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	aches	ache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	headaches	headache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **keep** | participle |  | Worry and sadness *not said here* |  |  | time | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cause** | can | Worry and sadness | stomach aches and headaches and bad sleep |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ache=Patient |

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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:20`.

**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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