Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 10
When an older relative becomes very forgetful because of an illness, the repeating is the illness, not the person being difficult; feeling annoyed and guilty at the same time is normal.
Who acts: older relative, repeating, feeling · What happens: become, be, feel · To what, where: illness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection 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 (older relative, repeating, feeling), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 becomes | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 relative | det |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 relative | amod |
| 4 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 becomes | nsubj |
| 5 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 illness | advcl |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 forgetful | advmod |
| 7 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 becomes | xcomp |
| 8 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 illness | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 because | fixed |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 illness | det |
| 11 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 becomes | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 illness | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 repeating | det |
| 14 | repeating | repeating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 illness | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 illness | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 illness | det |
| 17 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 person | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 person | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 illness | conj |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 difficult | cop |
| 23 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 person | amod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 normal | punct |
| 25 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 normal | csubj |
| 26 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feeling | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 guilty | cc |
| 28 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 annoyed | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feeling | obl |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 normal | cop |
| 34 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 illness | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 illness | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | a older relative | because a illness; forgetful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the repeating | the illness and the person | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | time | annoyed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | present | feeling | normal property | 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:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-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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