--- title: In a hospital emergency department the most serious cases are seen f… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics description: In a hospital emergency department the most serious cases are seen first, so a person with a small cut may wait while someone very ill goes ahead. Who acts: person, someone. 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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 (person, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:1 # text = In a hospital emergency department the most serious cases are seen first, so a person with a small cut may wait while someone very ill goes ahead. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.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 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 4 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 department department NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 27 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present · passive | | the serious cases | | a hospital emergency department | | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **wait** | may | a person with a small cut | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | present | someone | | | | | ahead *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:1`. **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. **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: [Helpers in town and building sites, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/0/) - next →: [Helpers in town and building sites, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/)