The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 9
Good doctors talk to children directly, because children often know best how they feel.
Who acts: Good doctors, children, height · What happens: talk, know, feel · 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 (Good doctors, children, height), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 doctors | amod |
| 2 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talk | nsubj |
| 3 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talk | obl |
| 6 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 3 talk | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 talk | advcl |
| 12 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 know | advmod |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 feel | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Good doctors | to children; directly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to child=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | present | children | often, well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | height | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:medicine:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:9.
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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