--- title: As grown-ups get older, their bodies need more looking after: backs… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: As grown-ups get older, their bodies need more looking after: backs ache, eyes struggle with small print, ears fade, and teeth need regular checks. Who acts: grown ups, bodies, eyes, ears. A sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/) / 0 # Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 0 As grown-ups get older, their bodies need more looking after: backs ache, eyes struggle with small print, ears fade, and teeth need regular checks. **Who acts:** grown ups, bodies, eyes, ears, teeth · **What happens:** grow, get, need, look after, struggle, fade · **To what, where:** more, backs ache, regular checks This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (grown ups, bodies, eyes, ears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:0 # text = As grown-ups get older, their bodies need more looking after: backs ache, eyes struggle with small print, ears fade, and teeth need regular checks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 6 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 obj _ _ 12 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 compound _ _ 16 ache ache NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 struggle struggle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 print print NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fade fade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 checks check NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | grown ups | | | | | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **need** | present | ups's bodies | more | | | | backs ache *obl* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | | 4 | **look after** | gerund | | | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **struggle** | present | eyes | backs ache *not said here* | | | | with small print | tree rules | | 6 | **fade** | present | ears | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **need** | present | teeth | regular checks | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot check=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:0`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Hospitals, operations and serious illn…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/18/) - next →: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/)