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title: In a hospital or doctor's waiting room you speak quietly and stay se… — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics
description: In a hospital or doctor's waiting room you speak quietly and stay seated, because patients may be ill or worried. Who acts: you, patients. A sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Quiet places and solemn moments, sentence 11

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In a hospital or doctor's waiting room you speak quietly and stay seated, because patients may be ill or worried.

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**Who acts:** you, patients · **What happens:** speak, stay, seat, be · **To what, where:** hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» of the everyday 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 (you, patients), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:11
# text = In a hospital or doctor's waiting room you speak quietly and stay seated, because patients may be ill or worried.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  | a hospital or doctor's waiting room |  | quietly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seat** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **is** | may | patients |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | patients *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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