--- title: A person with dementia may mix up names or think it is years ago; co… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: A person with dementia may mix up names or think it is years ago; correcting them sharply can upset them. Who acts: person, correcting. 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 of --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 15 A person with dementia may mix up names or think it is years ago; correcting them sharply can upset them. **Who acts:** person, correcting · **What happens:** mix up, think, be, correct, upset · **To what, where:** names, person, years, memory 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 (person, correcting), 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:15 # text = A person with dementia may mix up names or think it is years ago; correcting them sharply can upset them. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 dementia dementia NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 mix mix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 16 correcting correct VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 sharply sharply ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 upset upset VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix up** | may | a person with dementia | names | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | a person with dementia *not said here* | person | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | years | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | gerund | | | memory | | | sharply *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **upset** | can | correcting | memory | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | 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:15`. **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 ×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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