--- title: This whole course has told the same story many times, about grief, g… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics description: This whole course has told the same story many times, about grief, guilt, fights, being left out, failing and the tricks of the night mind: the first nights are the loudest, the feeling changes over days and weeks, the looping thought slowly loosens, and you come to understand things you could not s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/30-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Getting through it: who helps, what he…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/30-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back/) / 3 # Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 3 This whole course has told the same story many times, about grief, guilt, fights, being left out, failing and the tricks of the night mind: the first nights are the loudest, the feeling changes over days and weeks, the looping thought slowly loosens, and you come to understand things you could not see at the start. **Who acts:** whole course, first nights, feeling, looping thought, you · **What happens:** tell, leave out, fail, be, change, loosen · **To what, where:** same story, things, start, night mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (whole course, first nights, feeling, looping thought), 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:3 # text = This whole course has told the same story many times, about grief, guilt, fights, being left out, failing and the tricks of the night mind: the first nights are the loudest, the feeling changes over days and weeks, the looping thought slowly loosens, and you come to understand things you could not see at the start. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 guilt guilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 failing fail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 amod _ _ 34 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 loudest loud ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 parataxis _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 42 over over ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:det 48 looping looping NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 thought think NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 50 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 loosens loosen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 54 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 56 to to PART TO _ 57 mark _ _ 57 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 xcomp _ _ 58 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obj _ _ 59 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 60 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 61 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 62 advmod _ _ 62 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 acl:relcl _ _ 63 at at ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 66 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | this whole course | the same story | | | time | about grief and guilt and fights and the tricks of the night mind | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about grief=Topic | | 2 | **leave out** | gerund · passive | this whole course *not said here* | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **fail** | gerund | this whole course *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the first nights | | | | | loud *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | present | the feeling | | | | day | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **loosen** | present | the looping thought | | | | | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **come** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **understand** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | things | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 9 | **not** **see** | could | you | things *not said here* | | the start | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 10 | **trick** | | | the night mind | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×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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