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title: A worry that lasts for weeks is a real problem, and a parent, teache… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: A worry that lasts for weeks is a real problem, and a parent, teacher or school counsellor can help. Who acts: worry, parent. 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 8

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A worry that lasts for weeks is a real problem, and a parent, teacher or school counsellor can help.

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**Who acts:** worry, parent · **What happens:** last, be, help · **To what, where:** real problem

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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, parent), 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:8
# text = A worry that lasts for weeks is a real problem, and a parent, teacher or school counsellor can help.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 |  |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a worry | a real problem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | can | a parent and teacher or school counsellor |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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**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:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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