Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 2

Picture a kitchen in Manchester: Mum yawns over her toast and says, "We had to take Grandad to A&E last night." He had a pain in his chest; the doctors checked him, and he is staying in for a few days.

Who acts: you, Mum, We, E, doctors · What happens: picture, yawn, say, have, take, check · To what, where: kitchen, Manchester, toast, Grandad, pain, chest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Mum, We, E), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kitchen	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Manchester	case
5	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kitchen	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 yawns	punct
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yawns	nsubj
8	yawns	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 toast	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 toast	nmod:poss
11	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yawns	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 yawns	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	26 night	case
22	A	A	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
23	&	&	CCONJ	_	24 E	cc
24	E	E	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 A	conj
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 night	amod
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pain	det
32	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 chest	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 chest	nmod:poss
35	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pain	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 checked	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 doctors	det
38	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 checked	nsubj
39	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 checked	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 staying	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 staying	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 staying	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 staying	aux
45	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 checked	conj
46	in	in	ADV	_	45 staying	advmod
47	for	for	ADP	_	50 days	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 days	det
49	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 days	amod
50	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 staying	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a kitchen		Manchester			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme
2	yawn	present	Mum			Mum's toast			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	Mum not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	past	We						tree rules
5	take in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here		Grandad		night	A & E obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument grandad=Destination
6	have	past	E	a pain		E's chest			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
7	check	past	the doctors	E					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	stay in	present · progressive	E				day		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:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.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 ×5, 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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