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title: Writing worries in a diary, sometimes called journaling or a "brain… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Writing worries in a diary, sometimes called journaling or a "brain dump", can help sort them out and calm the mind at bedtime. Who acts: diary, Writing. A sentence of the lesson «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 10

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Writing worries in a diary, sometimes called journaling or a "brain dump", can help sort them out and calm the mind at bedtime.

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**Who acts:** diary, Writing · **What happens:** write, call, help, sort out, calm · **To what, where:** worries, diary, journaling, mind, bedtime · **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 (diary, Writing), 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:10
# text = Writing worries in a diary, sometimes called journaling or a "brain dump", can help sort them out and calm the mind at bedtime.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj
2	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	journaling	journal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dump	dump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	sort	sort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
23	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **write** | gerund |  | worries |  | a diary |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent worry=Theme in diary=Destination |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a diary *not said here* | journaling or a brain dump |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | can | Writing |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sort out** | infinitive | Writing *not said here* | journaling *= journal* |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **calm** | infinitive | Writing *not said here* | the mind |  | bedtime |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer |

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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:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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