--- title: When something is frustrating, a short break and asking for help wor… — Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with s… · tree and pragmatics description: When something is frustrating, a short break and asking for help work better than giving up or breaking things. Who acts: something, short break. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, short break), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:23 # text = When something is frustrating, a short break and asking for help work better than giving up or breaking things. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 frustrating frustrating ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 15 than than SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 20 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | something | | | | | frustrating *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a short break *not said here* | | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **work** | present | a short break | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give up** | gerund | a short break *not said here* | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **break** | gerund | a short break *not said here* | things | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient | 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. **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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:23`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Frustration, loneliness, guilt and liv…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/22/) - next →: [A new baby, looking after siblings and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/)