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title: A counsellor is someone trained to help with feelings; going to one… — Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away · tree and pragmatics
description: A counsellor is someone trained to help with feelings; going to one is like going to a doctor for your feelings, and it is normal and smart. Who acts: counsellor, going. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 12

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A counsellor is someone trained to help with feelings; going to one is like going to a doctor for your feelings, and it is normal and smart.

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**Who acts:** counsellor, going · **What happens:** be, train, help, go · **To what, where:** someone, one, doctor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away» 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 (counsellor, going), 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:12
# text = A counsellor is someone trained to help with feelings; going to one is like going to a doctor for your feelings, and it is normal and smart.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
5	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:expl
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a counsellor | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with feelings | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feeling=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | gerund |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | present · progressive | going |  |  | a doctor |  | for your feelings | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to doctor=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **is** | present | counsellor |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | counsellor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): 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.

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

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