When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 15
A person with dementia may mix up names or think it is years ago; correcting them sharply can upset them.
Who acts: person, correcting · What happens: mix up, think, be, correct, upset · To what, where: names, person, years, memory
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 (person, correcting), 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mix | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 dementia | case |
| 4 | dementia | dementia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 person | nmod |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mix | aux |
| 6 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 mix | compound:prt |
| 8 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mix | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 think | cc |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mix | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 think | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 years | cop |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 think | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 mix | punct |
| 16 | correcting | correct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 upset | csubj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 correcting | obj |
| 18 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 16 correcting | advmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 upset | aux |
| 20 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mix | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 upset | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mix | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | may | a person with dementia | names | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | a person with dementia not said here | person | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | years | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | correct speech: disagree | gerund | memory | sharply property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | upset | can | correcting | memory | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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:15.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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