--- title: Many very old people live in care homes, where staff help them wash,… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics description: Many very old people live in care homes, where staff help them wash, eat and move; some are lonely, and visits matter a lot. Who acts: Many old people, staff, people, some. 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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 (Many old people, staff, people, some), 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:13 # text = Many very old people live in care homes, where staff help them wash, eat and move; some are lonely, and visits matter a lot. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 11 staff staff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Many old people | | | care homes | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | | 2 | **help** | present | staff | people | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **wash** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **move** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | some | | | | | lonely *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **matter** | present | visits | a lot | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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:13`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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