Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 33
Dementia is an illness of the brain that makes people forget, more and more over time; Alzheimer's disease is the most common kind.
Who acts: Dementia, illness, people, disease · What happens: be, make, forget · 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, disease), 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 | PROPN | 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 | _ | 4 illness | punct |
| 19 | Alzheimer | Alzheimer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 disease | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Alzheimer | case |
| 21 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kind | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 kind | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kind | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 common | advmod |
| 25 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 kind | amod |
| 26 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 illness | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 illness | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | is a | present | Alzheimer's disease | 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:33.
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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