Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 12

Cancer is when some cells in the body grow out of control and form lumps that can spread; you cannot catch it from someone.

Who acts: Cancer, cells, lumps, you · What happens: be, grow out, form, spread, not catch · To what, where: control, cancer, someone

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» 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 (Cancer, cells, lumps, you), 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	Cancer	Cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 when	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 when	cop
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 grow	advmod
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 cells	det
5	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 body	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cells	nmod
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	12 control	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 control	case
12	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lumps	cc
14	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	conj
15	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 control	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 spread	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 spread	aux
18	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lumps	acl:relcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 catch	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 catch	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 catch	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 catch	advmod
23	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 grow	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 catch	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 someone	case
26	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 catch	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 when	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cancer			when property	tree rules
2	grow out	infinitive	some cells in the body	control and lumps			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location control=Theme
3	form	present	some cells in the body not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spread	can	lumps				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not catch	can	you	cancer	someone		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from someone=Source

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:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:12.

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. 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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