--- title: Dementia is an illness of the brain that makes people forget, more a… — Dementia and the first death in the family · tree and pragmatics description: Dementia is an illness of the brain that makes people forget, more and more over time, even the people they love; Alzheimer's is the most common kind. Who acts: Dementia, illness, people, Alzheimer. 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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 (Dementia, illness, people, Alzheimer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:0 # text = Dementia is an illness of the brain that makes people forget, more and more over time, even the people they love; Alzheimer's is the most common kind. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.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 Dementia dementia NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 conj _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 Alzheimer Alzheimer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nmod:poss 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 30 advmod _ _ 30 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Dementia | a illness | | | | of the brain | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | a illness | people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **forget** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **love** | present | people | the people | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | Alzheimer | the common kind | | | | | tree rules | 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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:0`. **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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