Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 7

"Free" care still costs money, so waiting lists can grow long; insurance gives choice, but bills can be very large for people without it.

Who acts: Free care, insurance, bills · What happens: cost, grow, give, be · To what, where: money, waiting lists, choice

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 (Free care, insurance, bills), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Free	punct
2	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 care	amod
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Free	punct
4	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 costs	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 costs	advmod
6	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 costs	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waiting	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 waiting	advmod
10	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lists	compound
11	lists	list	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grow	obj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 grow	aux
13	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 costs	parataxis
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 grow	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 gives	punct
16	insurance	insurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gives	nsubj
17	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 costs	conj
18	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gives	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 large	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 large	cc
21	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 large	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 large	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 large	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 large	advmod
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gives	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 people	case
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 large	obl
28	without	without	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 people	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 costs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Free care	money	still		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value
2	grow	can		waiting lists		long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location list=Theme
3	give	present	insurance	choice			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme
4	is	can	bills			for people without insurance; large property	tree rules

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:7.

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 ×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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