--- title: People with dementia often repeat themselves; listening kindly is be… — Dementia and the first death in the family · tree and pragmatics description: People with dementia often repeat themselves; listening kindly is better than saying «you told me». Who acts: People, listening, you. A sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family/35/) [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/) / [Dementia and the first death in the fa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family/) / 35 # Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 35 People with dementia often repeat themselves; listening kindly is better than saying «you told me». **Who acts:** People, listening, you · **What happens:** repeat, listen, be, say, tell · **To what, where:** people, listening · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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 (People, listening, you), 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:35 # text = People with dementia often repeat themselves; listening kindly is better than saying «you told me». # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 dementia dementia NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 repeat repeat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 8 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 9 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 12 than than SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repeat** | present | People with dementia | people | | | | often *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality | | 2 | **listen** | gerund | | | | | | kindly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | listening | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | listening *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | you | | listening | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | 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:35`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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