Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 5
Cancer is a serious illness, but many people get better with treatment; doctors cannot always say at first.
Who acts: Cancer, many people, doctors · What happens: be, get, not say · To what, where: serious illness · 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 (Cancer, many people, doctors), 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 | Cancer | Cancer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 illness | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 illness | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 illness | det |
| 4 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 illness | amod |
| 5 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 illness | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 get | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 get | nsubj |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 illness | conj |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 get | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 treatment | case |
| 13 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 better | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 say | punct |
| 15 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 say | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 say | advmod |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 say | advmod |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 illness | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 first | case |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 say | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 illness | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cancer | a serious illness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | many people | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | can | doctors | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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