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# Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 9

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Trauma is a very deep hurt from something terrifying; it can last a long time, it is not weakness, and help from a counsellor can make it lighter.

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**Who acts:** Trauma, help · **What happens:** be, last, not be, make · **To what, where:** deep hurt, something, weakness, Trauma

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» 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 (Trauma, help), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:9
# text = Trauma is a very deep hurt from something terrifying; it can last a long time, it is not weakness, and help from a counsellor can make it lighter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Trauma	trauma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod	_	_
9	terrifying	terrifying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29: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 | **is a** | present | Trauma | a deep hurt and weakness |  | something |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **last** | can | Trauma |  |  |  | time |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Trauma | weakness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | can | help from a counsellor | Trauma |  |  |  | light *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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