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title: Non-urgent appointments can be weeks away because doctors have more… — Going to the doctor and the chemist · tree and pragmatics
description: Non-urgent appointments can be weeks away because doctors have more patients than time; urgent problems are seen sooner. Who acts: Non-urgent appointments, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 10

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Non-urgent appointments can be weeks away because doctors have more patients than time; urgent problems are seen sooner.

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**Who acts:** Non-urgent appointments, doctors · **What happens:** be, have, see · **To what, where:** more patients, urgent problems

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life 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 (Non-urgent appointments, doctors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson:10
# text = Non-urgent appointments can be weeks away because doctors have more patients than time; urgent problems are seen sooner.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Non-urgent	non-urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	appointments	appointment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	parataxis	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Non-urgent appointments |  |  |  | week | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | doctors | more patients |  |  | than time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patient=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | present · passive |  | urgent problems |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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