--- title: A chronic condition is an illness that lasts a long time or for life… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: A chronic condition is an illness that lasts a long time or for life, like arthritis, asthma or heart disease; it can often be controlled but not cured. Who acts: chronic condition, illness. 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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 (chronic condition, illness), 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:6 # text = A chronic condition is an illness that lasts a long time or for life, like arthritis, asthma or heart disease; it can often be controlled but not cured. # 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 3 det _ _ 2 chronic chronic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 arthritis arthritis NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 asthma asthma NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:appos 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 cured cure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 32 . . 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 a** | present | a chronic condition | a illness | | | | like arthritis and asthma or heart disease | tree rules | | 2 | **last** | present | a illness | | | | time | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **control** | can · passive | | condition | | | | often *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **not** **cure** | participle | | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer | 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:6`. **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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