Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 14

Memory can get weaker with age, and some older people have dementia, an illness that damages memory, so answer repeated questions kindly.

Who acts: Memory, older people, illness · What happens: get, have, damage, answer, repeat · To what, where: dementia, memory, repeated questions

This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday 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, older people, 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	Memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 age	case
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 people	det
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj
13	dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 illness	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 illness	det
16	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dementia	appos
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 damages	nsubj
18	damages	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 illness	acl:relcl
19	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 damages	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 answer	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 answer	advmod
22	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj
23	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 questions	amod
24	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 answer	obj
25	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	22 answer	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	can	Memory		with age	weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	present	some older people	dementia			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dementia=Patient
3	damage	present	a illness	memory			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient
4	answer speech: assert	infinitive	Memory not said here	repeated questions		kindly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
5	repeat	participle					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.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): 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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