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title: Talking to a trusted adult about worries is one of the best ways to… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: Talking to a trusted adult about worries is one of the best ways to make them smaller. Who acts: Talking. 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 21

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Talking to a trusted adult about worries is one of the best ways to make them smaller.

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**Who acts:** Talking · **What happens:** talk, be, make · **To what, where:** one, sleep

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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 (Talking), 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:21
# text = Talking to a trusted adult about worries is one of the best ways to make them smaller.
# 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	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a trusted adult about worries | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Talking | one |  |  |  | of the best ways | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Talking *not said here* | sleep |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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:21`.

**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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