Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 1
Picture Mason at Grandad's hospital bed: tubes, wires and beeping machines make him hide behind his mum, until a nurse explains that the machines help Grandad breathe and let the nurses watch his heart, and Mason holds Grandad's hand.
Who acts: tubes, Mason, nurse, machines, Grandad, nurses · What happens: picture, beep, make, hide, explain, help · To what, where: Mason, hospital bed, machines, Grandad, heart, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» of the religion ethics 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 (tubes, Mason, nurse, machines), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | parataxis |
| 2 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 4 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Grandad | case |
| 6 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bed | compound |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mason | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 tubes | punct |
| 9 | tubes | tube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wires | punct |
| 11 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tubes | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beeping | cc |
| 13 | beeping | beep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tubes | conj |
| 14 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beeping | obj |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | xcomp |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 mum | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mum | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hide | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 explains | punct |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 explains | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 nurse | det |
| 24 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 explains | nsubj |
| 25 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hide | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 help | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 machines | det |
| 28 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 help | nsubj |
| 29 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 explains | ccomp |
| 30 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 help | obj |
| 31 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 help | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 let | cc |
| 33 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 help | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 nurses | det |
| 35 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 watch | nsubj |
| 36 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 let | xcomp |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 watch | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 holds | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 holds | cc |
| 41 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 holds | nsubj |
| 42 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 breathe | conj |
| 43 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 hand | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 Grandad | case |
| 45 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 holds | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | infinitive | Mason | Grandad's hospital bed | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mason=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beep | gerund | tubes and wires not said here | machines | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location machine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | tubes and wires | Mason | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hide | infinitive | Mason not said here | behind Mason's mum | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind mum=Location | ||||
| 5 | explain speech: assert | present | a nurse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | help | present | the machines | Grandad | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent grandad=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | breathe | infinitive | Grandad not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | let | infinitive | the machines not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | watch | infinitive | the nurses | nurse's heart | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 10 | hold | present | Mason | Grandad's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:religion-ethics:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:1.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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