--- title: Dementia is an illness of the brain, more common in old age, that sl… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: Dementia is an illness of the brain, more common in old age, that slowly damages memory and thinking; it gets worse over time and there is no cure yet. Who acts: Dementia, illness, thinking, cure. 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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 (Dementia, illness, thinking, cure), 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:14 # text = Dementia is an illness of the brain, more common in old age, that slowly damages memory and thinking; it gets worse over time and there is no cure yet. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Dementia Dementia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:JJ:_ 17 damages damage VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 18 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 thinking thinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 24 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 obj _ _ 25 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 32 yet yet ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Dementia | a illness | | | | of the brain | tree rules | | 2 | **damage** | present | a illness | memory and thinking | | | | slowly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | | 3 | **get** | present | thinking | worse | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bad=Stimulus | | 4 | **be** | present | no cure | | | there | yet | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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