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title: Hospitals limit visiting hours and the number of visitors so patient… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics
description: Hospitals limit visiting hours and the number of visitors so patients can rest and doctors and nurses can work. Who acts: Hospitals, patients, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 11

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Hospitals limit visiting hours and the number of visitors so patients can rest and doctors and nurses can work.

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**Who acts:** Hospitals, patients, doctors · **What happens:** limit, rest, work

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» 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 (Hospitals, patients, doctors), 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:11
# text = Hospitals limit visiting hours and the number of visitors so patients can rest and doctors and nurses can work.
# 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): no change
1	Hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	limit	limit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	visiting	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **limit** | present | Hospitals |  |  |  | hour |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **rest** | can | patients |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | can | doctors and nurses |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:11`.

**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): no change. **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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