Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 10
Non-urgent appointments can be weeks away because doctors have more patients than time; urgent problems are seen sooner.
Who acts: Non-urgent appointments, doctors · What happens: be, have, see · To what, where: more patients, urgent problems
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 (Non-urgent appointments, doctors), 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 | Non-urgent | non-urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 appointments | amod |
| 2 | appointments | appointment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 away | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 away | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 away | cop |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 away | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 seen | parataxis |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 8 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 away | advcl |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 patients | amod |
| 11 | patients | patient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 patients | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 15 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 problems | amod |
| 16 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 seen | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 away | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Non-urgent appointments | week | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | doctors | more patients | than time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patient=Patient | |||
| 3 | see | present · passive | urgent problems | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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:10.
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): R6-punct-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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