Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 25

Falls are a major cause of serious injury in older people, and a broken hip can take months to heal.

Who acts: Falls, broken hip · What happens: be, break, take, heal · To what, where: major cause

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 (Falls, broken hip), 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	Falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cause	det
4	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 injury	case
7	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 injury	amod
8	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 injury	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hip	det
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 hip	amod
16	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cause	conj
19	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 take	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 heal	mark
21	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cause	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	Falls	a major cause		of serious injury in older people	tree rules
2	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	take	can	a broken hip		month		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	heal	to-infinitive	a broken hip not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:25.

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): R8-pos-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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