Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 1
Doctors have more patients than time, so getting an appointment can mean ringing early or waiting weeks.
Who acts: Doctors, getting · What happens: have, get, mean, ring, wait · To what, where: more patients, appointment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Doctors, getting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 patients | amod |
| 4 | patients | patient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 patients | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 mean | advmod |
| 9 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 mean | csubj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 appointment | det |
| 11 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 getting | obj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 mean | aux |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 14 | ringing | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 mean | xcomp |
| 15 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 ringing | advmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 waiting | cc |
| 17 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 ringing | conj |
| 18 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 waiting | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Doctors | more patients | than time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patient=Patient | |||
| 2 | get | gerund | a appointment | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appointment=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | mean | can | getting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ring not said to happen | gerund | getting not said here | early property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | getting not said here | week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:adult-life:020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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