Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 8

An organ must match the sick person's body, so people often wait a long time; in the UK many people wait two to three years for a kidney.

Who acts: organ, people, many people · What happens: match, wait · To what, where: body, UK

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» 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 (organ, people, many people), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 organ	det
2	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 match	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 match	aux
4	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 body	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 person	case
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 match	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wait	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 wait	advmod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wait	nsubj
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 wait	advmod
14	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 match	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wait	obl:unmarked
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 wait	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 UK	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 UK	det
21	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 wait	obl
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wait	nsubj
24	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wait	parataxis
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 three	case
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 two	nmod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wait	obl:unmarked
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 kidney	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 kidney	det
31	kidney	kidney	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wait	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 match	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	must	a organ	the sick person's body				vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
2	wait	present	people			time	often property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	present	many people		the UK	year	for a kidney	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in uk=Location

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:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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