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title: Trauma is the lasting effect of something very frightening; flashbac… — Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away · tree and pragmatics
description: Trauma is the lasting effect of something very frightening; flashbacks are sudden, vivid memories of it; there is no time limit for getting over it, and counsellors can help. Who acts: Trauma, flashbacks, time limit, counsellors. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go
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# Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 19

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Trauma is the lasting effect of something very frightening; flashbacks are sudden, vivid memories of it; there is no time limit for getting over it, and counsellors can help.

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**Who acts:** Trauma, flashbacks, time limit, counsellors · **What happens:** be, get, help · **To what, where:** lasting effect, Trauma

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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 (Trauma, flashbacks, time limit, counsellors), 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:19
# text = Trauma is the lasting effect of something very frightening; flashbacks are sudden, vivid memories of it; there is no time limit for getting over it, and counsellors can help.
# 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
1	Trauma	trauma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lasting	lasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	flashbacks	flashback	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advcl
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | Trauma | the lasting effect |  |  |  | of something | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | flashbacks |  |  |  |  | vivid memories of Trauma *obl*; sudden *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | no time limit |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | no time limit *not said here* |  |  | Trauma |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination |
| 5 | **help** | can | counsellors |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:19`.

**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. **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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