--- title: Across most hard events, the things that help are talking to someone… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics description: Across most hard events, the things that help are talking to someone you trust, putting right what you can, small steps and time; hiding, pretending and waiting alone help least. Who acts: things, you. 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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 (things, you), 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:18 # text = Across most hard events, the things that help are talking to someone you trust, putting right what you can, small steps and time; hiding, pretending and waiting alone help least. # 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): no change 1 Across across ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 3 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obl _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 18 right right ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 can can VERB MD VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 28 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 nsubj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 33 alone alone ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 35 least least ADV RBS Degree=Sup 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | the things | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **talk** | present · progressive | the things | | | most hard events | | to someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent | | 3 | **trust** | present | you | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put** | gerund | the things *not said here* | small steps and time | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent what=Asset step=Goal | | 5 | **can** | | you | | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hide** | gerund | | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **pretend** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **wait** | gerund | | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **help** | present | | | | | | least *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:18`. **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): no change. **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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