Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 8
Doctors try very hard, but some illnesses cannot be cured; it is usually not the doctors' fault.
Who acts: Doctors, way · What happens: try, not cure, not be · To what, where: illnesses, fault
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» 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 (Doctors, way), 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 | Doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 try | nsubj |
| 2 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 try | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cured | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 cured | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 illnesses | det |
| 8 | illnesses | illness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cured | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 cured | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cured | aux:pass |
| 12 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 try | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fault | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fault | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fault | cop |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 21 fault | advmod |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 fault | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 doctors | det |
| 19 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fault | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 19 doctors | case |
| 21 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 try | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 try | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Doctors | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not cure | can · passive | some illnesses | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | way | the doctors's fault | usually 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:religion-ethics:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.lesson:8.
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. 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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