--- title: Some illnesses in old age never go away; doctors call them chronic,… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: Some illnesses in old age never go away; doctors call them chronic, and they can be controlled but not cured. Who acts: illnesses, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/1/) [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/) / [When Grandma and Grandad need more help](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/) / 1 # When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 1 Some illnesses in old age never go away; doctors call them chronic, and they can be controlled but not cured. **Who acts:** illnesses, doctors · **What happens:** not go away, call, control, not cure · **To what, where:** illnesses, doctors · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» 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 (illnesses, doctors), 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:1 # text = Some illnesses in old age never go away; doctors call them chronic, and they can be controlled but not cured. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 illnesses illness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 chronic chronic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 cured cure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go away** | present | some illnesses in old age | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | present | doctors | illnesses *= illness* | | | | chronic *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **control** | can · passive | | doctors *= doctor* | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **not** **cure** | participle | | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer | 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:1`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When Grandma and Grandad need more help, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/0/) - next →: [When Grandma and Grandad need more help, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/)