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title: "Went away for a rest" is an old-fashioned phrase for spending time… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Went away for a rest" is an old-fashioned phrase for spending time in a psychiatric hospital, a hospital for illnesses of the mind. Who acts: fashioned phrase. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school w
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# Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 21

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"Went away for a rest" is an old-fashioned phrase for spending time in a psychiatric hospital, a hospital for illnesses of the mind.

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**Who acts:** fashioned phrase · **What happens:** go away, be, spend · **To what, where:** fashioned phrase, psychiatric hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms 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 (fashioned phrase), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:21
# text = "Went away for a rest" is an old-fashioned phrase for spending time in a psychiatric hospital, a hospital for illnesses of the mind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 005-drink-mind-and-body.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	psychiatric	psychiatric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **go away** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | for a rest; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a fashioned phrase |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spend** | gerund | a fashioned phrase *not said here* |  |  | a psychiatric hospital | time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:euphemisms:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:21`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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