Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 0

Dementia is an illness of the brain that makes people forget, more and more over time, even the people they love; Alzheimer's is the most common kind.

Who acts: Dementia, illness, people, Alzheimer · What happens: be, make, forget, love · To what, where: illness, people, common kind

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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 (Dementia, illness, people, Alzheimer), 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	Dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illness	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illness	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 illness	det
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brain	det
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illness	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illness	acl:relcl
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 makes	obj
11	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 makes	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 more	cc
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 more	conj
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 time	case
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 more	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 love	punct
19	even	even	ADV	_	21 people	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 love	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 love	nsubj
23	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 makes	parataxis
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 kind	punct
25	Alzheimer	Alzheimer	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 kind	nsubj
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Alzheimer	case
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 kind	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 kind	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 common	advmod
30	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 kind	amod
31	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illness	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 illness	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dementia	a illness	of the brain	tree rules
2	make	present	a illness	people		tree rules
3	forget	infinitive	people not said here			tree rules
4	love	present	people	the people		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
5	is a	present	Alzheimer	the common kind		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:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:0.

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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