Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 0

As grown-ups get older, their bodies need more looking after: backs ache, eyes struggle with small print, ears fade, and teeth need regular checks.

Who acts: grown ups, bodies, eyes, ears, teeth · What happens: grow, get, need, look after, struggle, fade · To what, where: more, backs ache, regular checks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (grown ups, bodies, eyes, ears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 get	mark
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ups	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 need	advcl
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bodies	nmod:poss
9	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 need	obj
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 more	acl
13	after	after	ADP	_	12 looking	compound:prt
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 ache	punct
15	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ache	compound
16	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 struggle	punct
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 struggle	nsubj
19	struggle	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ache	acl:relcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 print	case
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 print	amod
22	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 struggle	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fade	punct
24	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fade	nsubj
25	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 print	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 need	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 need	cc
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 need	nsubj
29	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 struggle	conj
30	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 checks	amod
31	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 need	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	grown ups		old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	need	present	ups's bodies	more	backs ache obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme
4	look after	gerund				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	struggle	present	eyes	backs ache not said here	with small print	tree rules
6	fade	present	ears			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	need	present	teeth	regular checks		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot check=Theme

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, 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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:0.

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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