--- title: Dementia is an illness that damages memory and thinking; a person ma… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: Dementia is an illness that damages memory and thinking; a person may forget names but often still responds to a loved voice, a hug or an old song. Who acts: Dementia, illness, person. 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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, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:16 # text = Dementia is an illness that damages memory and thinking; a person may forget names but often still responds to a loved voice, a hug or an old song. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.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 ×2 1 Dementia Dementia PROPN NNP 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 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 damages damage VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 thinking think NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 15 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 responds respond VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hug hug NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Dementia | a illness | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **damage** | present | a illness | memory and thinking | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | | 3 | **forget** | may | a person | names | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **respond** *speech: other* | present | a person *not said here* | | | | still | to a loved voice and a hug or a old song; often *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme | | 5 | **love** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | 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:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:16`. **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 ×2. **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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