--- title: Some old people get an illness of the brain called dementia that mak… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics description: Some old people get an illness of the brain called dementia that makes them forget, even the names of people they love; it is the illness forgetting, not the love going away. Who acts: old people, brain, dementia, people. 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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 (old people, brain, dementia, people), 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:4 # text = Some old people get an illness of the brain called dementia that makes them forget, even the names of people they love; it is the illness forgetting, not the love going away. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 dementia dementia NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 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 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 28 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 forgetting forgetting NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ _ 34 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **get** | present | some old people | a illness of the brain | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer illness=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** | participle | the brain *not said here* | dementia | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | dementia | people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **forget** | infinitive | people *not said here* | the names of people | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **love** | present | people | people *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | | 6 | **is a** | present | illness | illness forgetting | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go away** | gerund | the love *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **name** | | | people | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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