Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 3
Very rarely, a child gets an illness doctors cannot cure; a children's hospice is a calm place with toys and a garden where very ill children and their families are cared for, kept comfortable and helped to enjoy the time they have.
Who acts: child, doctors, hospice · What happens: get, not cure, be, care, keep, help · To what, where: illness, calm place, ill children, time
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 (child, doctors, hospice), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 rarely | advmod |
| 2 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 6 gets | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rarely | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 illness | det |
| 8 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obj |
| 9 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cure | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cure | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 cure | advmod |
| 12 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 illness | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 place | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hospice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 children | case |
| 17 | hospice | hospice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 place | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 20 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 place | amod |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | parataxis |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 toys | case |
| 23 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 place | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 garden | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 garden | det |
| 26 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | conj |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 cared | advmod |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 ill | advmod |
| 29 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 children | amod |
| 30 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 cared | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 families | cc |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 families | nmod:poss |
| 33 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 children | conj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 cared | aux:pass |
| 35 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 garden | acl:relcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 cared | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 kept | punct |
| 38 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 cared | conj |
| 39 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 kept | xcomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 helped | cc |
| 41 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 kept | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 enjoy | mark |
| 43 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 helped | xcomp |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 time | det |
| 45 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 enjoy | obj |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 have | nsubj |
| 47 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 time | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a child | a illness | rarely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer illness=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not cure | can | doctors | a illness not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a children's hospice | a calm place and a garden | with toys | tree rules | |||
| 4 | care | present · passive | ill children and doctors's families | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keep | participle | comfortable property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | help | past | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | enjoy | to-infinitive | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | have | present | doctors = doctor | the time not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient |
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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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