--- title: A fall is much more serious for an old person because their bones ar… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: A fall is much more serious for an old person because their bones are thinner and break more easily; "kept her in" means she had to stay in hospital. Who acts: fall, bones, balance. A sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school w --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 10 A fall is much more serious for an old person because their bones are thinner and break more easily; "kept her in" means she had to stay in hospital. **Who acts:** fall, bones, balance · **What happens:** be, break, keep, mean, have, stay · **To what, where:** balance, hospital · **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 (fall, bones, balance), 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:10 # text = A fall is much more serious for an old person because their bones are thinner and break more easily; "kept her in" means she had to stay in hospital. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 6 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 thinner thin ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 advcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 easily easily ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 22 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 in in SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is** | present | a fall | | | | | for a old person; serious *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | people's bones | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **break** | present | people's bones *not said here* | | | | | easily *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | past | | balance | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** | past | balance | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **stay** | to-infinitive | balance *not said here* | | | hospital | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hospital=Location | 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:10`. **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. 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