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title: Across all those stories, the same things helped: saying the looping… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Across all those stories, the same things helped: saying the looping thought out loud to someone you trust, putting right what can be put right, small steps back into normal life, writing things down, and grown-ups who know how to help; hiding, pretending and waiting for it to vanish on its own help
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# Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 4

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Across all those stories, the same things helped: saying the looping thought out loud to someone you trust, putting right what can be put right, small steps back into normal life, writing things down, and grown-ups who know how to help; hiding, pretending and waiting for it to vanish on its own helped least.

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**Who acts:** same things, you, ups, thought · **What happens:** help, say, trust, put, write down, grow · **To what, where:** stories, looping thought, someone, things, ups, own · **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 (same things, you, ups, 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:4
# text = Across all those stories, the same things helped: saying the looping thought out loud to someone you trust, putting right what can be put right, small steps back into normal life, writing things down, and grown-ups who know how to help; hiding, pretending and waiting for it to vanish on its own helped 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:csubj
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
13	looping	looping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
16	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	right	right	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
28	right	right	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
38	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	_
44	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	_
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	63	nsubj	_	_
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	conj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	conj	_	_
56	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	advcl	_	_
60	on	on	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	obl	_	_
63	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
64	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	63	advmod	_	_
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **help** | past | the same things |  |  | all stories |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the same things *not said here* | the looping thought | someone |  |  | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Topic to someone=Recipient |
| 3 | **trust** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put** | gerund | the same things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **put** | can · passive | the same things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: what=Goal |
| 6 | **write down** | gerund | the same things *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 7 | **grow** | participle | the same things *not said here* | ups |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location up=Theme |
| 8 | **know** | present | ups |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 13 | **vanish** | to-infinitive | thought |  |  | thought's own |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 14 | **help** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | least *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×4, 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.

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