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title: A classmate who is often away ill needs kindness and help to catch up. — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics
description: A classmate who is often away ill needs kindness and help to catch up. Who acts: classmate. A sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 6

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A classmate who is often away ill needs kindness and help to catch up.

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**Who acts:** classmate · **What happens:** be, need, catch up · **To what, where:** kindness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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 (classmate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:6
# text = A classmate who is often away ill needs kindness and help to catch up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 082-getting-better-and-medicines.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a classmate |  |  |  |  | away, ill, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | a classmate | kindness and help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kindness=Theme |
| 3 | **catch up** | to-infinitive | a classmate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «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:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:6`.

**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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