--- title: As people grow very old, their bodies and sometimes their minds get… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: As people grow very old, their bodies and sometimes their minds get weaker, and they need more help with everyday things like walking, washing, meals and medicine. Who acts: people, bodies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, bodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.lesson:0 # text = As people grow very old, their bodies and sometimes their minds get weaker, and they need more help with everyday things like walking, washing, meals and medicine. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 weaker weak ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 25 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | people's bodies and people's minds | | | | | weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **need** | present | bodies *= body* | more help | | | | with everyday things like walking and washing and meals and medicine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 4 | **mind** | | people | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/20/) - next →: [When Grandma and Grandad need more help, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/)