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title: Therapy means talking with someone trained to help with feelings, su… — Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away · tree and pragmatics
description: Therapy means talking with someone trained to help with feelings, such as anger or sadness; going shows someone wants to get better, not that they are "crazy". Who acts: Therapy, someone, children. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away» of the reflection course 
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# Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 18

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Therapy means talking with someone trained to help with feelings, such as anger or sadness; going shows someone wants to get better, not that they are "crazy".

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**Who acts:** Therapy, someone, children · **What happens:** mean, talk, train, help, go, show · **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 (Therapy, someone, 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:18
# text = Therapy means talking with someone trained to help with feelings, such as anger or sadness; going shows someone wants to get better, not that they are "crazy".
# 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 ×4
1	Therapy	therapy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
20	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Therapy |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **talk** *not said to happen* | gerund | Therapy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with someone=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with feelings such anger or sadness | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feeling=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **want** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | crazy *property* | 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 ×4. **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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