Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 4

Some old people get an illness of the brain called dementia that makes them forget, even the names of people they love; it is the illness forgetting, not the love going away.

Who acts: old people, brain, dementia, people, illness, love · What happens: get, call, make, forget, love, be · To what, where: illness, dementia, people, names, illness forgetting · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old people, brain, dementia, people), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 people	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 illness	det
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 brain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brain	det
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 illness	nmod
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 brain	acl
11	dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 makes	nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dementia	acl:relcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 makes	obj
15	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 makes	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 names	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	19 names	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 names	det
19	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 forget	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 names	nmod
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	21 people	acl:relcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 forgetting	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 forgetting	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 forgetting	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 illness	det
28	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 forgetting	compound
29	forgetting	forgetting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 love	punct
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 love	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 love	det
33	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 forgetting	parataxis
34	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 love	acl
35	away	away	ADV	_	34 going	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	some old people	a illness of the brain		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer illness=Stimulus
2	call	participle	the brain not said here	dementia		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	dementia	people		tree rules
4	forget	infinitive	people not said here	the names of people		tree rules
5	love	present	people	people not said here		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
6	is a	present	illness	illness forgetting		tree rules
7	go away	gerund	the love not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	name			people		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:4.

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 ×2. 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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