When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 9
With age, muscles weaken and balance gets worse, so older people may wobble, shuffle, or use a stick or a frame.
Who acts: muscles, balance, older people · What happens: weaken, get, wobble, shuffle, use · To what, where: stick
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 (muscles, balance, older people), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 age | case |
| 2 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weaken | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 age | punct |
| 4 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weaken | nsubj |
| 5 | weaken | weaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gets | cc |
| 7 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weaken | conj |
| 9 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 gets | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wobble | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 wobble | advmod |
| 12 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wobble | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wobble | aux |
| 15 | wobble | wobble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 weaken | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shuffle | punct |
| 17 | shuffle | shuffle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wobble | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 use | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 use | cc |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wobble | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stick | det |
| 22 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 use | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 frame | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 frame | det |
| 25 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stick | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 weaken | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weaken | present | muscles | with age | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | get | present | balance | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wobble | may | older people | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shuffle | infinitive | older people not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | use | infinitive | older people not said here | a stick or a frame | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×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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