--- title: Anyone can need help; laughing at someone for seeing a counsellor is… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics description: Anyone can need help; laughing at someone for seeing a counsellor is unkind, and the one laughing may need help one day too. Who acts: Anyone, laughing, one. 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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 (Anyone, laughing, one), 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:15 # text = Anyone can need help; laughing at someone for seeing a counsellor is unkind, and the one laughing may need help one day too. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obl _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | can | Anyone | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 2 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | someone | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | gerund | | a counsellor | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer counsellor=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | laughing | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **laugh** | gerund | the one *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **need** | may | the one | help | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | 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:030-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back.lesson:15`. **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. **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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