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title: When a teacher asks you to stay behind and asks "are you okay?", it… — Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away · tree and pragmatics
description: When a teacher asks you to stay behind and asks "are you okay?", it usually means they noticed you are struggling, not that you are in trouble. Who acts: teacher, you, it, children. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away» of the reflection course of Mova's primar
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# Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 17

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When a teacher asks you to stay behind and asks "are you okay?", it usually means they noticed you are struggling, not that you are in trouble.

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**Who acts:** teacher, you, it, children · **What happens:** ask, stay, be, mean, notice, struggle · **To what, where:** you, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (teacher, you, it, children), 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:17
# text = When a teacher asks you to stay behind and asks "are you okay?", it usually means they noticed you are struggling, not that you are in trouble.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a teacher |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a teacher *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a teacher *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | present | it |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **notice** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **struggle** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  | trouble |  |  | 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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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