When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 14

Dementia is an illness of the brain, more common in old age, that slowly damages memory and thinking; it gets worse over time and there is no cure yet.

Who acts: Dementia, illness, thinking, cure · What happens: be, damage, get · To what, where: illness, memory, worse

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 (Dementia, illness, thinking, cure), 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	Dementia	Dementia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 illness	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illness	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 illness	det
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brain	det
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illness	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 common	punct
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 common	advmod
10	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 illness	amod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 age	case
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 age	amod
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 common	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 memory	punct
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 damages	nsubj
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	17 damages	advmod
17	damages	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illness	acl:relcl
18	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 damages	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thinking	cc
20	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 memory	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 gets	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gets	nsubj
23	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 common	parataxis
24	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 gets	obj
25	over	over	ADP	_	26 time	case
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 worse	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 is	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 is	expl
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 gets	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 cure	det
31	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 is	nsubj
32	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 is	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 illness	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dementia	a illness			of the brain	tree rules
2	damage	present	a illness	memory and thinking			slowly property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient
3	get	present	thinking	worse				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bad=Stimulus
4	be	present	no cure		there	yet		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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