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title: Some illnesses, like cancer, are serious and take months of treatmen… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics
description: Some illnesses, like cancer, are serious and take months of treatment, and some checks, like scans and tests, are only there to be careful. Who acts: illnesses, checks. A sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 3

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Some illnesses, like cancer, are serious and take months of treatment, and some checks, like scans and tests, are only there to be careful.

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**Who acts:** illnesses, checks · **What happens:** be, take

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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 (illnesses, checks), 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:3
# text = Some illnesses, like cancer, are serious and take months of treatment, and some checks, like scans and tests, are only there to be careful.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	checks	check	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	scans	scan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **is** | present | some illnesses like cancer |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | some illnesses like cancer *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | some checks like scans and tests |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | some checks like scans and tests *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |

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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:3`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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