When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 1
Some illnesses in old age never go away; doctors call them chronic, and they can be controlled but not cured.
Who acts: illnesses, doctors · What happens: not go away, call, control, not cure · To what, where: illnesses, doctors · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (illnesses, doctors), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 illnesses | det |
| 2 | illnesses | illness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 age | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 age | amod |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 illnesses | nmod |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
| 10 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 call | nsubj |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 call | obj |
| 13 | chronic | chronic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 call | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 controlled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 controlled | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 controlled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 controlled | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 controlled | aux:pass |
| 19 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 go | conj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 cured | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 cured | advmod |
| 22 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 controlled | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go away | present | some illnesses in old age | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | present | doctors | illnesses = illness | chronic property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | control | can · passive | doctors = doctor | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not cure | participle | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer |
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:1.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
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