Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 23
It was reported that resident doctors in England went on strike several times over pay, saying it had fallen behind prices; the government said it could not afford what they asked, and emergency care continued.
Who acts: resident doctors, part, government, people · What happens: report, go, say, fall, not afford, ask · To what, where: part, strike, prices, emergency care · 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 (resident doctors, part, government, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 went | mark |
| 5 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doctors | compound |
| 6 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 England | case |
| 8 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 doctors | nmod |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 strike | case |
| 11 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 pay | case |
| 15 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fallen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fallen | aux |
| 20 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 prices | case |
| 22 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fallen | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 government | det |
| 25 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saying | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 afford | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 afford | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 afford | advmod |
| 30 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 asked | obj |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 asked | nsubj |
| 33 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 afford | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 continued | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 continued | cc |
| 36 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 care | compound |
| 37 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 fallen | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | part | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | go | past | resident doctors in England | strike | time | over pay | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over pay=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | resident doctors in England not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | part | prices | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind price=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the government | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not afford | could | part | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 8 | continue | participle · passive | emergency care | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=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:23.
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, R7-rel-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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