Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 8
Pointing it out only upsets someone with dementia; listening as if it's the first time makes them happy.
Who acts: Pointing, look, listening · What happens: point out, upset, listen, be, make · To what, where: look, someone, first time, memories
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 (Pointing, look, listening), 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 | Pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 upsets | csubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pointing | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Pointing | compound:prt |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 upsets | advmod |
| 5 | upsets | upset | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 upsets | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dementia | case |
| 8 | dementia | dementia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 someone | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 listening | punct |
| 10 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 makes | csubj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 time | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 time | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 time | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 listening | advcl |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 upsets | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 makes | obj |
| 20 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 upsets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | gerund | look | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 2 | upset | present | Pointing | someone | with dementia | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | listen | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | look | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | present | listening | memories = memory | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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:8.
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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