--- title: It started small after his gran moved away; week by week it got grey… — Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away · tree and pragmatics description: It started small after his gran moved away; week by week it got greyer; he said "fine" a hundred times; when he finally told his mum he cried for an hour, then slept better than he had for weeks; with the family doctor and a school counsellor, it lifted slowly over months, and he started football ag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/29-getting-help-when-sadness-or-worry-wont-go-away/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Getting help: when sadness or worry wo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/29-getting-help-when-sadness-or-worry-wont-go-away/) / 4 # Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 4 It started small after his gran moved away; week by week it got greyer; he said "fine" a hundred times; when he finally told his mum he cried for an hour, then slept better than he had for weeks; with the family doctor and a school counsellor, it lifted slowly over months, and he started football again bit by bit. **Who acts:** life, gran · **What happens:** start, move away, get, say, tell, cry · **To what, where:** fine, mum, football · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (life, gran), 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:4 # text = It started small after his gran moved away; week by week it got greyer; he said "fine" a hundred times; when he finally told his mum he cried for an hour, then slept better than he had for weeks; with the family doctor and a school counsellor, it lifted slowly over months, and he started football again bit by bit. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 greyer grey ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 finally finally ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 iobj _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 39 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 40 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ _ 41 than than SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 46 ; ; PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 58 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=60:advmod 59 over over ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obl _ _ 61 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 63 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 64 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 conj _ _ 65 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ _ 66 again again ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 67 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 68 by by ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 69 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nmod _ _ 70 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past | life | | | | | small *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **move away** | past | Alfie's gran | | | | week | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | past | life | | | | | grey *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | gran | fine | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fine=Topic | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | gran | | gran's mum | | | finally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | gran | | | | hour | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sleep** | past | | | | | then | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **have** | past | gran | | | | week | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **lift** | past | life | | | | month | with the family doctor and a school counsellor; slowly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **start** | past | gran | football | | | | bit by bit *obl* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Eventuality | 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×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. 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