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title: Pointing it out only upsets someone with dementia; listening as if i… — Dementia and the first death in the family · tree and pragmatics
description: Pointing it out only upsets someone with dementia; listening as if it's the first time makes them happy. Who acts: Pointing, look, listening. 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 pragmat
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# Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 8

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Pointing it out only upsets someone with dementia; listening as if it's the first time makes them happy.

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**Who acts:** Pointing, look, listening · **What happens:** point out, upset, listen, be, make · **To what, where:** look, someone, first time, memories

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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 (Pointing, look, listening), 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:8
# text = Pointing it out only upsets someone with dementia; listening as if it's the first time makes them happy.
# 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): no change
1	Pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	upsets	upset	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dementia	dementia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
18	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **point out** | gerund |  | look |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **upset** | present | Pointing | someone |  |  |  | with dementia | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | look | the first time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | present | listening | memories *= memory* |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:8`.

**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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