Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 17

Results of blood tests and scans can take days or weeks, and waiting for them is often the most worrying part; most results come back fine.

Who acts: Results, waiting, most results · What happens: take, wait, be, come back, result · To what, where: worrying part, blood tests

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 (Results, waiting, most results), 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	Results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 tests	case
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tests	compound
4	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Results	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scans	cc
6	scans	scan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tests	conj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 weeks	cc
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 days	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 part	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 part	cc
14	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 part	csubj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 waiting	obl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 part	cop
18	often	often	ADV	_	22 part	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 part	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 worrying	advmod
21	worrying	worry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 part	amod
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 results	amod
25	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	nsubj
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 take	parataxis
27	back	back	ADV	_	28 fine	advmod
28	fine	fine	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	can	Results of blood tests and scans		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	wait	gerund				for results = result	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	waiting	the worrying part		often property	tree rules
4	come back	present	most results			fine property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	result			blood tests and scans			nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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:17.

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, R7-rel-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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