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title: Parents would usually rather know about a problem and worry than not… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents would usually rather know about a problem and worry than not know; "bottling it up" means keeping feelings inside, which tends to make them heavier. Who acts: Parents, bottling. A sentence of the lesson «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back» of the reflection course of
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# Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 8

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Parents would usually rather know about a problem and worry than not know; "bottling it up" means keeping feelings inside, which tends to make them heavier.

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**Who acts:** Parents, bottling · **What happens:** know, not know, bottle up, mean, keep, tend · **To what, where:** worry, feelings, Parents · **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 (Parents, bottling), 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:8
# text = Parents would usually rather know about a problem and worry than not know; "bottling it up" means keeping feelings inside, which tends to make them heavier.
# 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	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bottling	bottle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	tends	tend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would | Parents |  |  |  |  | about a problem and worry; usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about problem=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **know** | infinitive | Parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bottle up** *in a quote* | gerund |  | worry |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | bottling |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **keep** *not said to happen* | gerund | bottling *not said here* | feelings |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |
| 6 | **tend** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | Parents *= parent* |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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:8`.

**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.

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

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