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title: Results of blood tests and scans can take days or weeks, and waiting… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics
description: Results of blood tests and scans can take days or weeks, and waiting for them is often the most worrying part; most results come back fine. Who acts: Results, waiting, most results. A sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school
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# Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 17

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Results of blood tests and scans can take days or weeks, and waiting for them is often the most worrying part; most results come back fine.

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**Who acts:** Results, waiting, most results · **What happens:** take, wait, be, come back, result · **To what, where:** worrying part, blood tests

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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 (Results, waiting, most results), 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:17
# text = Results of blood tests and scans can take days or weeks, and waiting for them is often the most worrying part; most results come back fine.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	scans	scan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	worrying	worry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fine	fine	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **take** | can | Results of blood tests and scans |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for results *= result* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | waiting | the worrying part |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come back** | present | most results |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | blood tests and scans |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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:17`.

**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, 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.

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

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