Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 19
A sick note, officially a fit note in the UK, is a doctor's letter saying a person is too unwell to work.
Who acts: sick note, letter, person · What happens: be, say, work · To what, where: letter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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 (sick note, letter, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 note | det |
| 2 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 note | amod |
| 3 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 letter | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 note | punct |
| 5 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 8 note | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 note | det |
| 7 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 note | compound |
| 8 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 note | appos |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 UK | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 UK | det |
| 11 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 note | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 note | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 letter | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 doctor | det |
| 15 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 letter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 doctor | case |
| 17 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 letter | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unwell | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 unwell | cop |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 unwell | advmod |
| 23 | unwell | unwell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 work | mark |
| 25 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 unwell | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 letter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a sick note | a doctor's letter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a doctor's letter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a person | unwell property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | a person not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:19.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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