When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 6

A chronic condition is an illness that lasts a long time or for life, like arthritis, asthma or heart disease; it can often be controlled but not cured.

Who acts: chronic condition, illness · What happens: be, last, control, not cure · To what, where: illness, condition

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 (chronic condition, illness), 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	3 condition	det
2	chronic	chronic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 condition	amod
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 illness	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 illness	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 illness	det
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lasts	nsubj
8	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 illness	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lasts	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 life	cc
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 life	case
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arthritis	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 arthritis	case
17	arthritis	arthritis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 illness	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asthma	punct
19	asthma	asthma	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arthritis	conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 disease	cc
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 disease	compound
22	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asthma	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 controlled	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 controlled	nsubj:pass
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 controlled	aux
26	often	often	ADV	_	28 controlled	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 controlled	aux:pass
28	controlled	control	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 illness	parataxis
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 cured	cc
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 cured	advmod
31	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 controlled	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 illness	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a chronic condition	a illness		like arthritis and asthma or heart disease	tree rules
2	last	present	a illness		time		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	control	can · passive		condition		often property	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:6.

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.

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