Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 14

Old people living alone can fall or become ill; if one has not been seen for days, tell a grown-up straight away.

Who acts: Old people, one · What happens: live, fall, become, not see, tell · To what, where: grown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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, one), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fall	nsubj
3	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 people	acl
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 living	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 become	cc
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fall	conj
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 seen	mark
12	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 seen	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tell	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 days	case
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seen	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fall	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 up	det
22	grown	grown-up	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 up	punct
24	up	up	ADP	_	20 tell	obj
25	straight	straight	ADV	_	26 away	advmod
26	away	away	ADV	_	20 tell	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund	Old people not said here			alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	can	Old people				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	infinitive	Old people not said here			ill property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	not see a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive	one		day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive		grown		away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient up=Topic

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:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:14.

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 ×3, 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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