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title: Doctors depend on what the patient tells them, so leaving out how a… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics
description: Doctors depend on what the patient tells them, so leaving out how a pain feels or where it moved can delay the right treatment. Who acts: Doctors, patient, pain. A sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 21

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Doctors depend on what the patient tells them, so leaving out how a pain feels or where it moved can delay the right treatment.

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**Who acts:** Doctors, patient, pain · **What happens:** depend, tell, leave out, feel, move, delay · **To what, where:** doctors, right treatment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» 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 (Doctors, patient, pain), 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:21
# text = Doctors depend on what the patient tells them, so leaving out how a pain feels or where it moved can delay the right treatment.
# 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	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	depend	depend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | Doctors |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on what=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the patient |  | doctors *= doctor* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **leave out** | gerund | the patient *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | present | a pain |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **move** | past | pain |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **delay** | can | the patient *not said here* | the right treatment |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent treatment=Source |

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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:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.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. **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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