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title: Months after the worst year of her life, Zoe looks back: Grandad die… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Months after the worst year of her life, Zoe looks back: Grandad died, her best friend moved away, and she was bullied for a whole term; at the time she lay awake thinking it would never end, and now she thinks: "I didn't think I'd get through it. Who acts: Zoe, Grandad, best friend, friend. A sente
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# Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 0

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Months after the worst year of her life, Zoe looks back: Grandad died, her best friend moved away, and she was bullied for a whole term; at the time she lay awake thinking it would never end, and now she thinks: "I didn't think I'd get through it.

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**Who acts:** Zoe, Grandad, best friend, friend, term · **What happens:** look back, die, move away, bully, lie, think · **To what, where:** friend, term · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back» 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 (Zoe, Grandad, best friend, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:030-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back.lesson:0
# text = Months after the worst year of her life, Zoe looks back: Grandad died, her best friend moved away, and she was bullied for a whole term; at the time she lay awake thinking it would never end, and now she thinks: "I didn't think I'd get through it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 030-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	bullied	bully	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
37	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advcl
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
48	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
49	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	_
54	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	ccomp	_	_
57	through	through	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **look back** | present | Zoe |  |  |  | month |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **die** | past | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **move away** | past | Zoe's best friend |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bully** | past · passive |  | friend |  |  |  | for a whole term | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | past | friend |  |  |  | time | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **end** | would | term |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | present | friend |  |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · do-support | friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 10 | **get** *in a quote* | would | friend |  |  | term |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through it=Destination |

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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:030-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back.lesson:0`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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