Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 7

"Negative patient outcome" is American hospital jargon for "the patient died".

Who acts: Negative patient outcome, patient · What happens: be, die · To what, where: American hospital jargon

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms 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 (Negative patient outcome, patient), 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	_	4 outcome	punct
2	Negative	negative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 outcome	amod
3	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	compound
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jargon	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 jargon	cop
7	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jargon	amod
8	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jargon	compound
9	jargon	jargon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 died	case
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 died	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 patient	det
13	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	nsubj
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 jargon	acl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 died	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 jargon	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	Negative patient outcome	American hospital jargon					tree rules
2	die in a quote	past	the patient	American hospital jargon not said here					tree rules

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:euphemisms:002-death-official-and-slang.lesson:7.

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 ×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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