Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 1

In a hospital emergency department the most serious cases are seen first, so a person with a small cut may wait while someone very ill goes ahead.

Who acts: person, someone · What happens: see, wait, go · To what, where: serious cases, hospital emergency department

This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday 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 (person, someone), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 department	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 department	det
3	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 department	compound
4	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 department	compound
5	department	department	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cases	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 serious	advmod
8	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cases	amod
9	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seen	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 seen	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wait	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	22 wait	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wait	nsubj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 cut	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cut	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cut	amod
20	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 person	nmod
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 wait	aux
22	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	parataxis
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 goes	mark
24	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 goes	nsubj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 ill	advmod
26	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 someone	amod
27	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wait	advcl
28	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	27 goes	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present · passive		the serious cases	a hospital emergency department	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	wait	may	a person with a small cut				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	present	someone			ahead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:1.

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 ×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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