Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 11

People near the end of life may still hear voices, so it is fine to talk to them, and it is fine to cry.

Who acts: People, it · What happens: hear, be, talk, cry · To what, where: voices, people

This is a sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» 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 (People, it), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hear	nsubj
2	near	near	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	aux
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 hear	advmod
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fine	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 fine	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fine	expl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fine	cop
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hear	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 talk	mark
17	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fine	csubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talk	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fine	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fine	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fine	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fine	cop
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hear	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 cry	mark
26	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 fine	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos, act=evaluate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	may	People near the end of life	voices		still		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	is	present					fine property	tree rules
3	talk	to-infinitive			people			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
4	is	present	it				fine property	tree rules
5	cry speech: express	to-infinitive						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:033-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent.lesson:11.

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 ×3. 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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