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title: What helped was telling Mum she had heard, and Mum saying clearly, "… — Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What helped was telling Mum she had heard, and Mum saying clearly, "It's not your fault"; she still felt worried when voices rose, but she knew it wasn't her job to fix it. Who acts: Maisie, job, voices. A sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the refle
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# Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 4

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What helped was telling Mum she had heard, and Mum saying clearly, "It's not your fault"; she still felt worried when voices rose, but she knew it wasn't her job to fix it.

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**Who acts:** Maisie, job, voices · **What happens:** help, be, hear, say, not be, feel · **To what, where:** fault, job · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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 (Maisie, job, voices), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.lesson:4
# text = What helped was telling Mum she had heard, and Mum saying clearly, "It's not your fault"; she still felt worried when voices rose, but she knew it wasn't her job to fix it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	csubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl
13	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
16	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	ccomp	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **help** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | tell *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | Maisie |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | job | your fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | past | Maisie |  |  |  | still | worried *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **rise** | past | voices |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **know** | past | Maisie |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **not** **is a** | past | job | Maisie's job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **fix** | to-infinitive | Maisie *not said here* | job |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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**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 ×1, R6-punct-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.

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