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title: Being "resilient" does not mean never being knocked down; it means g… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being "resilient" does not mean never being knocked down; it means getting back up, usually with help, one day at a time, and being the bit of help for someone else when it's their turn. Who acts: Being, resilient. A sentence of the lesson «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back
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# Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 5

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Being "resilient" does not mean never being knocked down; it means getting back up, usually with help, one day at a time, and being the bit of help for someone else when it's their turn.

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**Who acts:** Being, resilient · **What happens:** be, not mean, not knock down, mean, get back · **To what, where:** resilient, bit, turn · **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 (Being, resilient), 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:5
# text = Being "resilient" does not mean never being knocked down; it means getting back up, usually with help, one day at a time, and being the bit of help for someone else when it's their turn.
# 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Being	be	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	resilient	resilient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
15	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	ccomp	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	34	nmod	_	_
37	else	else	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	advcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **be** | gerund |  | resilient |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Being |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **knock down** *not said to happen* | gerund · passive | Being *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» |
| 4 | **mean** | present | resilient |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **get back** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day | with help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | gerund |  | the bit |  |  |  | of help for someone | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | resilient | things's turn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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