--- title: Memories fade quickly, so it helps to tell someone or write them dow… — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics description: Memories fade quickly, so it helps to tell someone or write them down soon. Who acts: Memories, Memory. A sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/13/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Remembering details](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/) / 13 # Remembering details, sentence 13 Memories fade quickly, so it helps to tell someone or write them down soon. **Who acts:** Memories, Memory · **What happens:** fade, help, tell, write down · **To what, where:** Memory, someone, details · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» of the everyday 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 (Memories, Memory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:018-remembering-details.lesson:13 # text = Memories fade quickly, so it helps to tell someone or write them down soon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 018-remembering-details.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 ×2 1 Memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fade fade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 7 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 iobj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **fade** | present | Memories | | | | | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **help** | present | | Memory | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Memory *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 4 | **write down** | infinitive | Memory *not said here* | details *= detail* | | | | soon *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:everyday:018-remembering-details.lesson:13`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Remembering details, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/12/) - next →: [Remembering details, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/)