Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 20

"Signed off" means a doctor has said someone cannot work for now, because of a physical or a mental illness; it is part of getting better, not laziness.

Who acts: doctor, someone, person, part · What happens: sign off, mean, say, not work, be, get · To what, where: part, laziness · 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 (doctor, someone, person, part), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Signed	punct
2	Signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 means	nsubj
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 Signed	compound:prt
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Signed	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 doctor	det
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 means	ccomp
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 work	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 work	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 work	advmod
13	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 now	case
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 work	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 physical	punct
17	because	because	ADP	_	24 illness	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 because	fixed
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 illness	det
20	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 illness	amod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 mental	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 illness	det
23	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 physical	conj
24	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 work	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 part	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 part	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 part	cop
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	parataxis
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 getting	mark
30	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 part	acl
31	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 getting	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 laziness	punct
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 laziness	advmod
34	laziness	laziness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 getting	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sign off in a quote	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present · perfect	a doctor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not work	can	someone		because a physical illness	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for now=Beneficiary
5	is a	present	person	part		tree rules
6	get	gerund	part not said here	laziness	good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laziness=Stimulus

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:20.

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. 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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