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title: Picture a kitchen in Manchester: Mum yawns over her toast and says,… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a kitchen in Manchester: Mum yawns over her toast and says, "We had to take Grandad to A&E last night." He had a pain in his chest; the doctors checked him, and he is staying in for a few days. Who acts: you, Mum, We, E. A sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of
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# Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 2

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Picture a kitchen in Manchester: Mum yawns over her toast and says, "We had to take Grandad to A&E last night." He had a pain in his chest; the doctors checked him, and he is staying in for a few days.

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**Who acts:** you, Mum, We, E, doctors · **What happens:** picture, yawn, say, have, take, check · **To what, where:** kitchen, Manchester, toast, Grandad, pain, chest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Mum, We, E), 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:2
# text = Picture a kitchen in Manchester: Mum yawns over her toast and says, "We had to take Grandad to A&E last night." He had a pain in his chest; the doctors checked him, and he is staying in for a few days.
# 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	yawns	yawn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	A	A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Definite=Ind|PronType=Art
23	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
29	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
46	in	in	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a kitchen |  | Manchester |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme |
| 2 | **yawn** | present | Mum |  |  | Mum's toast |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | We |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  | Grandad |  | night | A & E *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument grandad=Destination |
| 6 | **have** | past | E | a pain |  | E's chest |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |
| 7 | **check** | past | the doctors | E |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 8 | **stay in** | present · progressive | E |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:2`.

**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 ×5, 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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