--- title: "A problem shared is a problem halved" is a saying meaning that talk… — Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and l… · tree and pragmatics description: "A problem shared is a problem halved" is a saying meaning that talking about a problem makes it feel smaller. Who acts: problem, saying, talking. 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 depende --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back, sentence 9 "A problem shared is a problem halved" is a saying meaning that talking about a problem makes it feel smaller. **Who acts:** problem, saying, talking · **What happens:** share, be, halve, mean, talk, make · **To what, where:** problem, saying · **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 (problem, saying, talking), 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:9 # text = "A problem shared is a problem halved" is a saying meaning that talking about a problem makes it feel smaller. # 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 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 halved halve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** *in a quote* | participle | | a problem *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a problem | a problem | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **halve** *in a quote* | participle | | a problem *not said here* | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | a problem | a saying | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | gerund | a saying *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about a problem | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about problem=Topic | | 7 | **make** | present | talking | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **feel** | infinitive | saying | | | | | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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. 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