When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 10

A fall is much more serious for an old person because their bones are thinner and break more easily; "kept her in" means she had to stay in hospital.

Who acts: fall, bones, balance · What happens: be, break, keep, mean, have, stay · To what, where: balance, hospital · 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 (fall, bones, balance), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fall	det
2	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 serious	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 serious	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 serious	advmod
6	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 person	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 serious	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 thinner	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bones	nmod:poss
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thinner	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thinner	cop
15	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 serious	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 break	cc
17	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thinner	conj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 easily	advmod
19	easily	easily	ADV	_	17 break	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 kept	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 kept	punct
22	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 serious	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kept	obj
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 means	mark
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 kept	ccomp
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 means	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stay	mark
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 hospital	case
32	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stay	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 serious	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a fall			for a old person; serious property	tree rules
2	is	present	people's bones			thin property	tree rules
3	break	present	people's bones not said here			easily property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	keep in a quote	past		balance			tree rules
5	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	balance				tree rules
7	stay	to-infinitive	balance not said here		hospital		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hospital=Location

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:10.

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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