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title: In February 2024 the Palace announced that the King had a form of ca… — The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2024 the Palace announced that the King had a form of cancer, found while he was in hospital for a smaller problem, and was having treatment; the type was not made public. Who acts: Palace, King. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, title
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# The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 19

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In February 2024 the Palace announced that the King had a form of cancer, found while he was in hospital for a smaller problem, and was having treatment; the type was not made public.

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**Who acts:** Palace, King · **What happens:** announce, have, find, be, not make, form · **To what, where:** form, hospital, treatment, type, cancer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» 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 (Palace, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:19
# text = In February 2024 the Palace announced that the King had a form of cancer, found while he was in hospital for a smaller problem, and was having treatment; the type was not made public.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
30	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
37	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the Palace |  |  |  | february |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | the King | a form of cancer |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | participle | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | King |  |  | hospital |  | for a smaller problem | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past · progressive | the King *not said here* | treatment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **make** | past · passive |  | the type |  |  |  | public *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 7 | **form** |  |  | cancer |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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): 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.

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