Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 13

Many very old people live in care homes, where staff help them wash, eat and move; some are lonely, and visits matter a lot.

Who acts: Many old people, staff, people, some, visits · What happens: live, help, wash, eat, move, be · To what, where: care homes, people, lot

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 (Many old people, staff, people, some), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 old	advmod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 homes	case
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 homes	compound
8	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 help	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 help	advmod
11	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 help	nsubj
12	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 homes	acl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 help	obj
14	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 help	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wash	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 move	cc
18	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wash	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lonely	punct
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 lonely	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 lonely	cop
22	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wash	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 matter	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 matter	cc
25	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 matter	nsubj
26	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 live	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lot	det
28	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 matter	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Many old people		care homes		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location
2	help	present	staff	people			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	wash	infinitive	people not said here				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	infinitive	people not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	move	infinitive	people not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	some			lonely property	tree rules
7	matter	present	visits	a lot			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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:13.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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