Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 14

Some say the NHS needs much more money; others say it needs big changes and more help from private companies, and some worry that this takes staff away.

Who acts: Some, NHS, others, this · What happens: say, need, worry, take away · To what, where: more money, big changes, staff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» of the politics 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 (Some, NHS, others, this), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 NHS	det
4	NHS	NHS	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 needs	nsubj
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 money	amod
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	ccomp
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 changes	amod
15	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 needs	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 help	cc
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 help	amod
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 changes	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 companies	case
20	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 companies	amod
21	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 help	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 worry	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 worry	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 worry	nsubj
25	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 takes	mark
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 takes	nsubj
28	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 worry	ccomp
29	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 takes	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	28 takes	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	present	the NHS	more money		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	need	present	NHS	big changes and more help from private companies		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot change=Theme
5	worry	present	some			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	take away	present	this	staff	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=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:politics:020-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill.lesson:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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