Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 7

Illness can change how a person looks; chemo, a medicine for cancer, can make hair fall out, but the person inside is the same.

Who acts: Illness, person, chemo, hair · What happens: change, look, make, fall out, be

This is a sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» 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 (Illness, person, chemo, hair), 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	Illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 looks	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct
9	chemo	chemo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 medicine	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 medicine	det
12	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chemo	appos
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 cancer	case
14	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 medicine	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 change	parataxis
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fall	nsubj
19	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 fall	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 same	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 same	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 person	det
24	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 same	nsubj
25	inside	inside	ADV	_	24 person	advmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 same	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 same	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 make	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	change	can	Illness		tree rules
2	look	present	a person		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	make	can	chemo		tree rules
4	fall out	infinitive	hair		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	the person	same 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:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:7.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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