--- title: Older people and people with other health conditions are more likely… — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics description: Older people and people with other health conditions are more likely to get seriously ill with COVID, partly because the body's defences work less well in old age; if a relative gets ill, it is not a child's fault. Who acts: Older people, defences, relative, body. A sentence of the lesson «COVID and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/7/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [COVID and staying home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/) / 7 # COVID and staying home, sentence 7 Older people and people with other health conditions are more likely to get seriously ill with COVID, partly because the body's defences work less well in old age; if a relative gets ill, it is not a child's fault. **Who acts:** Older people, defences, relative, body · **What happens:** be, get, work, not be, defend · **To what, where:** fault This is a sentence of the lesson «COVID and staying home» of the medicine 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 (Older people, defences, relative, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:012-covid-and-staying-home.lesson:7 # text = Older people and people with other health conditions are more likely to get seriously ill with COVID, partly because the body's defences work less well in old age; if a relative gets ill, it is not a child's fault. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 012-covid-and-staying-home.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 conditions condition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 11 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 COVID COVID PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 partly partly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 defences defence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 26 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 27 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 36 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:det 42 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 ccomp _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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** | present | Older people and people with other health conditions | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Older people and people with other health conditions *not said here* | | | | | with COVID; ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **work** | present | the body's defences | | | | in old age | partly, well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in age=Theme | | 4 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a relative | | | | | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | relative | a child's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **defend** | | the body | | | | | | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent | 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:medicine:012-covid-and-staying-home.lesson:7`. **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): R5-strong ×3, 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: [COVID and staying home, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/6/) - next →: [COVID and staying home, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/)