Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 35

People with dementia often repeat themselves; listening kindly is better than saying «you told me».

Who acts: People, listening, you · What happens: repeat, listen, be, say, tell · To what, where: people, listening · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (People, listening, you), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 repeat	nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 dementia	case
3	dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 repeat	advmod
5	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 repeat	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
8	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 better	csubj
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	8 listening	advmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 repeat	parataxis
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 saying	mark
13	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 better	advcl
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 repeat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=evaluate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	repeat	present	People with dementia	people		often property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality
2	listen	gerund				kindly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	listening			good property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	listening not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	you		listening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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:35.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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