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title: Forgetting a name now and then, "on the tip of my tongue", is comple… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics
description: Forgetting a name now and then, "on the tip of my tongue", is completely normal at any age and is not dementia. Who acts: Forgetting. 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 ev
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# When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 16

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Forgetting a name now and then, "on the tip of my tongue", is completely normal at any age and is not dementia.

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**Who acts:** Forgetting · **What happens:** forget, be, not be · **To what, where:** name, tip, age, dementia

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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 (Forgetting), 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:16
# text = Forgetting a name now and then, "on the tip of my tongue", is completely normal at any age and is not dementia.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	dementia	dementia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | gerund |  | a name |  | the tip of my tongue | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Forgetting |  |  |  | at any age and dementia | completely, normal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Forgetting *not said here* | dementia |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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