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title: When an older relative becomes very forgetful because of an illness,… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: When an older relative becomes very forgetful because of an illness, the repeating is the illness, not the person being difficult; feeling annoyed and guilty at the same time is normal. Who acts: older relative, repeating, feeling. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, sile
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# Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 10

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When an older relative becomes very forgetful because of an illness, the repeating is the illness, not the person being difficult; feeling annoyed and guilty at the same time is normal.

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**Who acts:** older relative, repeating, feeling · **What happens:** become, be, feel · **To what, where:** illness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection 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 relative, repeating, feeling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:10
# text = When an older relative becomes very forgetful because of an illness, the repeating is the illness, not the person being difficult; feeling annoyed and guilty at the same time is normal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forgetful	forgetful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	repeating	repeating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	csubj	_	_
26	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **become** | present | a older relative |  |  |  |  | because a illness; forgetful *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the repeating | the illness and the person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time | annoyed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present | feeling |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): R6-punct-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/).

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