--- title: A scan looks inside the body; "just to be on the safe side" means th… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics description: A scan looks inside the body; "just to be on the safe side" means the doctor is being careful, and most scans find nothing serious. Who acts: scan, doctor, most scans. 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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 (scan, doctor, most scans), 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:18 # text = A scan looks inside the body; "just to be on the safe side" means the doctor is being careful, and most scans find nothing serious. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scan scan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 inside inside ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 just just ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:cop 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:aux 22 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 25 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 26 scans scan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 28 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 obj _ _ 29 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **look** | present | a scan | | | | | inside the body | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside body=Theme | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | the safe side | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present · progressive | the doctor | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | present | most scans | nothing | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | 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:18`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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. 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