Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 36

Dementia can change a person's mood, making them angry or scared for no clear reason; it is the illness, not the person's choice.

Who acts: Dementia, reason · What happens: change, make, be · To what, where: mood, moods, illness

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, reason), 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	3 change	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mood	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 person	case
7	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 making	punct
9	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 change	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 making	obj
11	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 making	xcomp
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 scared	cc
13	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 angry	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 reason	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 reason	det
16	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reason	amod
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scared	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 illness	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 illness	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 illness	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 illness	det
22	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 choice	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 choice	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 person	det
26	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 choice	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 person	case
28	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 illness	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	can	Dementia	a person's mood		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Patient
2	make	gerund	Dementia not said here	moods = mood	angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	is a	present	reason	the illness		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:36.

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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