--- title: "Signed off" means a doctor has said someone cannot work for now, be… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: "Signed off" means a doctor has said someone cannot work for now, because of a physical or a mental illness; it is part of getting better, not laziness. Who acts: doctor, someone, person, part. 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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 (doctor, someone, person, part), 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:20 # text = "Signed off" means a doctor has said someone cannot work for now, because of a physical or a mental illness; it is part of getting better, not laziness. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 2 Signed sign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 nsubj _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 because because ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 20 physical physical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 24 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 29 of of SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 31 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 laziness laziness NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sign off** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | a doctor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **work** | can | someone | | | | | because a physical illness | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for now=Beneficiary | | 5 | **is a** | present | person | part | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **get** | gerund | part *not said here* | laziness | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laziness=Stimulus | 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:20`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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