--- title: Most sad or worried feelings come and go, but some stay and stay: fo… — Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away · tree and pragmatics description: Most sad or worried feelings come and go, but some stay and stay: for two months Alfie felt flat, couldn't be bothered with football, was tired all the time and cried in the shower for no reason, and he kept thinking: "I've got nothing to be sad about. Who acts: Most sad feelings, some, Alfie. 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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 (Most sad feelings, some, Alfie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:029-getting-help-when-sadness-or-worry-wont-go-away.lesson:0 # text = Most sad or worried feelings come and go, but some stay and stay: for two months Alfie felt flat, couldn't be bothered with football, was tired all the time and cried in the shower for no reason, and he kept thinking: "I've got nothing to be sad about. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 029-getting-help-when-sadness-or-worry-wont-go-away.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 2 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 5 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 some some PRON DT PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 19 Alfie Alfie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 21 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 bothered bother VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:aux:pass 31 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 shower shower NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 42 det _ _ 42 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 47 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 xcomp _ _ 48 : : PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 50 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 47 ccomp _ _ 53 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 52 obj _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 55 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 56 cop _ _ 56 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 acl _ _ 57 about about ADP IN _ 56 obl _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Most sad feelings | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | Most sad feelings *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stay** | present | some | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stay** | present | some *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | past | Alfie | | | | month | flat *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **bother** | could · passive | Alfie *not said here* | | | | | with football | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 7 | **is** | past | Alfie *not said here* | | | | time | tired *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Alfie *not said here* | | | the shower | | for no reason | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shower=Location | | 9 | **keep** | past | Alfie | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Alfie *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 11 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Alfie | nothing | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 12 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alfie *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | 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:reflection:029-getting-help-when-sadness-or-worry-wont-go-away.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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