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title: A doctor is needed if a child can't keep fluids down, stops weeing,… — Tummy bugs and tummy aches · tree and pragmatics
description: A doctor is needed if a child can't keep fluids down, stops weeing, gets very drowsy or has blood in the poo. Who acts: child. A sentence of the lesson «Tummy bugs and tummy aches» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tummy bugs and tummy aches, sentence 9

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A doctor is needed if a child can't keep fluids down, stops weeing, gets very drowsy or has blood in the poo.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** need, not keep down, stop, wee, get, have · **To what, where:** doctor, fluids, blood, poo

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tummy bugs and tummy aches» of the medicine 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 (child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:010-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches.lesson:9
# text = A doctor is needed if a child can't keep fluids down, stops weeing, gets very drowsy or has blood in the poo.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 010-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	fluids	fluid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	weeing	wee	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **need** | present · passive |  | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **keep down** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | a child | fluids |  |  |  | down *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fluid=Patient |
| 3 | **stop** | present | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wee** | gerund | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | present | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | drowsy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **have** | present | a child *not said here* | blood |  | the poo |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |

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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:medicine:010-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches.lesson:9`.

**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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