When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 0

As people grow very old, their bodies and sometimes their minds get weaker, and they need more help with everyday things like walking, washing, meals and medicine.

Who acts: people, bodies · What happens: grow, get, need, mind · To what, where: more help

This is a sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» 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 (people, bodies), 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	_	3 grow	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	advcl
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bodies	punct
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bodies	nmod:poss
8	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 minds	cc
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 minds	advmod
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 minds	nmod:poss
12	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bodies	conj
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 get	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 need	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 need	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 need	nsubj
18	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	conj
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 help	amod
20	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 need	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 things	case
22	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 need	obl
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 walking	case
25	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 things	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 washing	punct
27	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walking	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 meals	punct
29	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 things	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 medicine	cc
31	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meals	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present	people		old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	people's bodies and people's minds		weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	need	present	bodies = body	more help	with everyday things like walking and washing and meals and medicine	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
4	mind		people			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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