--- title: You don't need a "big reason" to feel low; feelings can grow slowly,… — Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away · tree and pragmatics description: You don't need a "big reason" to feel low; feelings can grow slowly, and asking for help is strong, not dramatic. Who acts: You, feelings, asking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, feelings, asking), 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:9 # text = You don't need a "big reason" to feel low; feelings can grow slowly, and asking for help is strong, not dramatic. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 12 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 dramatic dramatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | You | a big reason | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reason=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | a big reason *not said here* | | | | low *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **grow** | can | feelings | | | | | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | asking | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **be** | | asking *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. 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