Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 12

Dementia is an illness of the brain that makes people forget and get confused; it is not a sign that they love people less.

Who acts: Dementia, brain, people, mayfly · What happens: be, make, forget, get, not be, love · To what, where: illness, people, sign

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics 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, brain, people, mayfly), 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	4 illness	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illness	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 illness	det
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brain	det
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illness	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 brain	acl:relcl
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 makes	obj
11	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 get	cc
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 forget	conj
14	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sign	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sign	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sign	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 sign	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sign	det
20	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illness	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 love	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 love	nsubj
23	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sign	acl
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 love	obj
25	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 love	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 illness	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dementia	a illness	of the brain	tree rules
2	make	present	the brain	people		tree rules
3	forget	infinitive	people not said here			tree rules
4	get	infinitive	people not said here		confused property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	not is a	present	mayfly	a sign		tree rules
6	love	present	people	people	less property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

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:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:12.

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): 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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