--- title: As people grow old, skin gets thinner, bones get weaker and the body… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics description: As people grow old, skin gets thinner, bones get weaker and the body heals more slowly; nobody can stop ageing. Who acts: people, skin, bones, body. 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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 (people, skin, bones, body), 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:5 # text = As people grow old, skin gets thinner, bones get weaker and the body heals more slowly; nobody can stop ageing. # 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 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 thinner thin ADJ NN Degree=Cmp 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 weaker weak ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 heals heal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 23 ageing ageing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | people | | | | | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | skin | | | | | thin *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **get** | present | bones | | | | | weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **heal** | present | the body | | | | | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **stop** | can | nobody | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **ageing** | gerund | nobody *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:5`. **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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