--- title: A sick note, officially a fit note in the UK, is a doctor's letter s… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: A sick note, officially a fit note in the UK, is a doctor's letter saying a person is too unwell to work. Who acts: sick note, letter, person. A sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/) / 19 # Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 19 A sick note, officially a fit note in the UK, is a doctor's letter saying a person is too unwell to work. **Who acts:** sick note, letter, person · **What happens:** be, say, work · **To what, where:** letter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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 (sick note, letter, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:19 # text = A sick note, officially a fit note in the UK, is a doctor's letter saying a person is too unwell to work. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 officially officially ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 fit fit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 unwell unwell ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a sick note | a doctor's letter | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a doctor's letter *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | a person | | | | | unwell *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:19`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/18/) - next →: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/)