The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 5

Receptionists ask what the problem is so they can find the right appointment and spot urgent cases first, sometimes with a nurse or pharmacist or by phone.

Who acts: Receptionists, problem, problems · What happens: ask, be, find, spot · To what, where: right appointment, urgent cases · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine 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 (Receptionists, problem, problems), 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	Receptionists	receptionist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 ask	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 problem	det
5	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 find	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 find	aux
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 appointment	det
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 appointment	amod
13	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spot	cc
15	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 find	conj
16	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cases	amod
17	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spot	obj
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 spot	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 nurse	punct
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 nurse	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 nurse	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nurse	det
23	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spot	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 pharmacist	cc
25	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nurse	conj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 phone	cc
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 phone	case
28	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nurse	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Receptionists			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the problem			tree rules
3	find	can	problems = problem	the right appointment		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Topic
4	spot	infinitive	problems = problem not said here	urgent cases	with a nurse or pharmacist or phone; first property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent case=Destination with nurse=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:medicine:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:5.

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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