--- title: Old people in care homes and those living alone can be lonely: Oscar… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics description: Old people in care homes and those living alone can be lonely: Oscar finds visiting his nan boring, but his visit may be the best part of her week, and Mia's gran telling the same story again is a chance to listen kindly. Who acts: Old people, Oscar, visit, gran. 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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, Oscar, visit, gran), 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:2 # text = Old people in care homes and those living alone can be lonely: Oscar finds visiting his nan boring, but his visit may be the best part of her week, and Mia's gran telling the same story again is a chance to listen kindly. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 8 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl:relcl _ _ 9 alone alone ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 14 Oscar Oscar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 16 visiting visit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 34 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 37 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 acl _ _ 47 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | can | Old people in care homes | | | | | lonely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | present | Oscar | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **visit** | gerund | Oscar *not said here* | Oscar's nan | | | | boring *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nan=Co-Agent | | 5 | **is a** | may | Oscar's visit | the best part and a chance | | | week | | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Mia's gran *not said here* | the same story | | | again | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 7 | **is a** | present | Mia's gran | a chance | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Oscar's visit *not said here* | | | | | kindly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **visit** | | Oscar | | | | | | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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