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title: "Memory problems" is a polite way of saying dementia, an illness of… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Memory problems" is a polite way of saying dementia, an illness of the brain that makes people forget. Who acts: Memory problems, dementia, illness, people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with
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# Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 10

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"Memory problems" is a polite way of saying dementia, an illness of the brain that makes people forget.

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**Who acts:** Memory problems, dementia, illness, people · **What happens:** be, say, make, forget · **To what, where:** polite way, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms 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 (Memory problems, dementia, illness, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:10
# text = "Memory problems" is a polite way of saying dementia, an illness of the brain that makes people forget.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 005-drink-mind-and-body.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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	dementia	dementia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Memory problems | a polite way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | dementia | a polite way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | present | a illness of the brain | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forget** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:euphemisms:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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