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title: After a very hard time, bad days usually become fewer and shorter ov… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a very hard time, bad days usually become fewer and shorter over months, though some still come. Who acts: bad days, some. A sentence of the lesson «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 7

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After a very hard time, bad days usually become fewer and shorter over months, though some still come.

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**Who acts:** bad days, some · **What happens:** become, come

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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 (bad days, some), 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:7
# text = After a very hard time, bad days usually become fewer and shorter over months, though some still come.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | bad days |  |  |  | time | few, usually *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | present | some |  |  |  | still |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:7`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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