Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 17

Some say Obamacare protected sick people and helped millions; others say it raised costs for some and put too many rules on businesses.

Who acts: Some, Obamacare, others, Act · What happens: say, protect, help, raise, put · To what, where: sick people, millions, costs, many rules, businesses · 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, Obamacare, others, Act), 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	Obamacare	Obamacare	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 protected	nsubj
4	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 protected	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 helped	cc
8	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 protected	conj
9	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 helped	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 raised	nsubj
14	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
15	costs	cost	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 raised	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 some	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 raised	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 raised	conj
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 many	advmod
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rules	amod
22	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 businesses	case
24	businesses	business	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	protect	past	Obamacare		sick people			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary
3	help	past	Obamacare not said here	millions				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Beneficiary
4	say speech: assert	present	others					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	raise	past	Act	costs			for some	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Theme
6	put	past	Act not said here	many rules		businesses		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme on business=Destination

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:17.

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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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