--- title: When someone in the family is ill or hurt, grown-ups use special hos… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics description: When someone in the family is ill or hurt, grown-ups use special hospital words that can sound frightening, but most of them have plain meanings. Who acts: someone, grown ups, special hospital words, most. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, grown ups, special hospital words, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:0 # text = When someone in the family is ill or hurt, grown-ups use special hospital words that can sound frightening, but most of them have plain meanings. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 13 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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** | present | someone | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hurt** | participle | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **use** | present | grown ups | special hospital words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 4 | **sound** | can | special hospital words | | | | | frightening *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **have** | present | most of ups | plain meanings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:0`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Going to the doctor and the chemist, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/21/) - next →: [Hospitals, operations and serious illn…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/)