--- title: In the emergency department the most serious cases are seen first; i… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics description: In the emergency department the most serious cases are seen first; it is not first come, first served. Who acts: driver. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Helpers in town and building sites](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/) / 7 # Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 7 In the emergency department the most serious cases are seen first; it is not first come, first served. **Who acts:** driver · **What happens:** see, not be, serve · **To what, where:** serious cases, emergency department 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 (driver), 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:7 # text = In the emergency department the most serious cases are seen first; it is not first come, first served. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 department department NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 7 advmod _ _ 7 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 advmod _ _ 17 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 advmod _ _ 20 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | | the emergency department | | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | driver | | | | | come, first *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **serve** | participle | | | | | | first *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | 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:7`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Helpers in town and building sites, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/6/) - next →: [Helpers in town and building sites, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/)