Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 10
"Memory problems" is a polite way of saying dementia, an illness of the brain that makes people forget.
Who acts: Memory problems, dementia, illness, people · What happens: be, say, make, forget · To what, where: polite way, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms 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 (Memory problems, dementia, illness, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 problems | punct |
| 2 | Memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 problems | compound |
| 3 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 way | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 problems | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 saying | mark |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | dementia | dementia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 illness | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 illness | det |
| 14 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dementia | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 brain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brain | det |
| 17 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 illness | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 illness | acl:relcl |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 makes | obj |
| 21 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 makes | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | 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 | is a | present | Memory problems | a polite way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | dementia | a polite way not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | present | a illness of the brain | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forget | infinitive | people not said here | tree rules |
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:euphemisms:005-drink-mind-and-body.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): no change. 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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