--- title: Chemo, short for chemotherapy, is strong medicine that kills cancer… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics description: Chemo, short for chemotherapy, is strong medicine that kills cancer cells; it can make people very tired and sick for months, and many people recover. Who acts: Chemo, strong medicine, many people. 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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 (Chemo, strong medicine, many people), 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:13 # text = Chemo, short for chemotherapy, is strong medicine that kills cancer cells; it can make people very tired and sick for months, and many people recover. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Chemo chemo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 amod _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 chemotherapy chemotherapy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 cancer cancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 recover recover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Chemo | strong medicine | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | present | strong medicine | cancer cells | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme | | 3 | **make** | can | Chemo | people | | | | tired *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material people=Product | | 4 | **recover** | present | many people | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:13`. **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 ×2. **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: [Hospitals, operations and serious illn…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/12/) - next →: [Hospitals, operations and serious illn…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/)