--- title: Doctors and hospitals use calm jargon: you may feel "discomfort" (pa… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: Doctors and hospitals use calm jargon: you may feel "discomfort" (pain) during "a procedure" (an operation), and a mistake that harms a patient is called "an adverse event". Who acts: Doctors, you, mistake. 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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 (Doctors, you, mistake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:2 # text = Doctors and hospitals use calm jargon: you may feel "discomfort" (pain) during "a procedure" (an operation), and a mistake that harms a patient is called "an adverse event". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 004-illness-disability-and-babies.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 jargon jargon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 discomfort discomfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 during during ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 procedure procedure NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 operation operation NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 harms harm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 patient patient NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 adverse adverse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 xcomp _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Doctors and hospitals | calm jargon | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jargon=Patient | | 2 | **feel** | may | you | discomfort | | | during a procedure | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discomfort=Theme | | 3 | **harm** | present | a mistake | a patient | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus patient=Experiencer | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | a mistake | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:euphemisms:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:2`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/)