Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 8

An operation, or surgery, is when a surgeon fixes or removes something inside the body; afterwards the person needs rest and must not lift heavy things.

Who acts: operation, surgeon, person · What happens: be, fix, remove, need, not lift · To what, where: something, body, rest, heavy things

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 (operation, surgeon, person), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 operation	det
2	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 when	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 surgery	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 surgery	cc
5	surgery	surgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 operation	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 operation	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 when	cop
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 surgeon	det
10	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fixes	nsubj
11	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 when	ccomp
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 removes	cc
13	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fixes	conj
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 removes	obj
15	inside	inside	ADP	_	17 body	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 body	det
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 something	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 needs	punct
19	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	22 needs	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 person	det
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needs	nsubj
22	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 when	parataxis
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needs	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lift	cc
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lift	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 lift	advmod
27	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 needs	conj
28	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lift	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 when	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a operation or surgery			when property	tree rules
2	fix	present	a surgeon				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	remove	present	a surgeon not said here	something	the body		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
4	need	present	the person	rest		afterwards property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme
5	not lift	must	the person not said here	heavy things			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:8.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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