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title: Waiting is a big part of hospitals: waiting to be seen, waiting for… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics
description: Waiting is a big part of hospitals: waiting to be seen, waiting for results, waiting for visiting hours. Who acts: Waiting. A sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 4

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Waiting is a big part of hospitals: waiting to be seen, waiting for results, waiting for visiting hours.

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**Who acts:** Waiting · **What happens:** be, wait, see · **To what, where:** big part

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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 (Waiting), 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:4
# text = Waiting is a big part of hospitals: waiting to be seen, waiting for results, waiting for visiting hours.
# 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	Waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	visiting	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Waiting | a big part |  |  |  | of hospitals | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for results | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  | hour |  | 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:4`.

**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/).

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