--- title: Older people may find bending, carrying or hurrying hard, and some f… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics description: Older people may find bending, carrying or hurrying hard, and some forget things because memory can get weaker with age. Who acts: Older people, some, memory. 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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 (Older people, some, memory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:1 # text = Older people may find bending, carrying or hurrying hard, and some forget things because memory can get weaker with age. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 227-older-people-and-disabilities.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 Older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 bending bending NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 hurrying hurry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 10 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 14 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 weaker weak ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **find** | may | Older people | bending | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bending=Topic | | 2 | **carry** | gerund | Older people *not said here* | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hurry** | gerund | Older people *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **forget** | present | some | things | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | can | memory | | | | with age | weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:1`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Respect for first peoples, older peopl…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/0/) - next →: [Respect for first peoples, older peopl…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/)