--- title: Dementia is an illness of the brain that makes people forget and get… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics description: Dementia is an illness of the brain that makes people forget and get confused; it is not a sign that they love people less. Who acts: Dementia, brain, people, mayfly. 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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, brain, people, mayfly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:12 # text = Dementia is an illness of the brain that makes people forget and get confused; it is not a sign that they love people less. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.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 ×1 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 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 confused confused ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 a** | present | Dementia | a illness | | | | of the brain | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | the brain | people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **forget** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | confused *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | mayfly | a sign | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **love** | present | people | people | | | | less *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | 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:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:12`. **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 ×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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