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title: Memory can get weaker with age, and some older people have dementia,… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Memory can get weaker with age, and some older people have dementia, an illness that damages memory, so answer repeated questions kindly. Who acts: Memory, older people, illness. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of
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# Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 14

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Memory can get weaker with age, and some older people have dementia, an illness that damages memory, so answer repeated questions kindly.

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**Who acts:** Memory, older people, illness · **What happens:** get, have, damage, answer, repeat · **To what, where:** dementia, memory, repeated questions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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 (Memory, older people, illness), 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:14
# text = Memory can get weaker with age, and some older people have dementia, an illness that damages memory, so answer repeated questions kindly.
# 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): no change
1	Memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	dementia	dementia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	damages	damage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | can | Memory |  |  |  | with age | weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | present | some older people | dementia |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dementia=Patient |
| 3 | **damage** | present | a illness | memory |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Memory *not said here* | repeated questions |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 5 | **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:14`.

**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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