--- title: "She's not herself" means someone is behaving differently than usual… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: "She's not herself" means someone is behaving differently than usual, from illness, worry, grief or medicine; grown-ups say it to be kind and private. Who acts: Dementia, someone, grown ups. 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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, someone, grown ups), 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:17 # text = "She's not herself" means someone is behaving differently than usual, from illness, worry, grief or medicine; grown-ups say it to be kind and private. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 behaving behave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 11 differently differently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 13 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 13 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 26 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 31 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Dementia | Dementia | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **behave** | present · progressive | someone | | | illness and worry and grief or medicine | | differently, usual *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | grown ups | name | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:17`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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