Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 5
As people grow old, skin gets thinner, bones get weaker and the body heals more slowly; nobody can stop ageing.
Who acts: people, skin, bones, body, nobody · What happens: grow, get, heal, stop, ageing
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 (people, skin, bones, body), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 grow | mark |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gets | advcl |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grow | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 gets | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gets | conj |
| 12 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 heals | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heals | nsubj |
| 16 | heals | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 weaker | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 slowly | advmod |
| 18 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 16 heals | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 stop | punct |
| 20 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 stop | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stop | aux |
| 22 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gets | parataxis |
| 23 | ageing | ageing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 stop | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | people | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | skin | thin property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | get | present | bones | weak property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | heal | present | the body | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stop | can | nobody | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | ageing | gerund | nobody not said here | 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:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:5.
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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