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title: But a worry or a sadness that lasts for weeks, or feelings so bad th… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: But a worry or a sadness that lasts for weeks, or feelings so bad that you think about hurting yourself, are real problems that grown-ups, doctors and helplines can help with, and you never have to carry them alone. Who acts: worry, you, grown. A sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» of the eve
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# Worry and sadness, sentence 3

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But a worry or a sadness that lasts for weeks, or feelings so bad that you think about hurting yourself, are real problems that grown-ups, doctors and helplines can help with, and you never have to carry them alone.

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**Who acts:** worry, you, grown · **What happens:** last, think, hurt, be, help, not have · **To what, where:** yourself, real problems, grown

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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, you, grown), 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:3
# text = But a worry or a sadness that lasts for weeks, or feelings so bad that you think about hurting yourself, are real problems that grown-ups, doctors and helplines can help with, and you never have to carry them alone.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
27	grown	grow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	flat	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	helplines	helpline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35: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 | **last** | present | a worry or a sadness or feelings |  |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hurt** | gerund | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a worry or a sadness or feelings | real problems |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | can | grown |  |  |  |  | with real problems | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with that=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **carry** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | grown *= grow* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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