--- title: Old people living alone can fall or become ill; if one has not been… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics description: Old people living alone can fall or become ill; if one has not been seen for days, tell a grown-up straight away. Who acts: Old people, one. 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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, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:14 # text = Old people living alone can fall or become ill; if one has not been seen for days, tell a grown-up straight away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 alone alone ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 aux _ _ 16 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 22 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 20 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound 25 straight straight ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | gerund | Old people *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | can | Old people | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **become** | infinitive | Old people *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · passive | one | | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | grown | | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient up=Topic | 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:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×3, 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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