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title: Receptionists ask what the problem is so they can find the right app… — The GP, the family doctor and the nurse · tree and pragmatics
description: Receptionists ask what the problem is so they can find the right appointment and spot urgent cases first, sometimes with a nurse or pharmacist or by phone. Who acts: Receptionists, problem, problems. A sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine course of Mova's 
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# The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 5

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Receptionists ask what the problem is so they can find the right appointment and spot urgent cases first, sometimes with a nurse or pharmacist or by phone.

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**Who acts:** Receptionists, problem, problems · **What happens:** ask, be, find, spot · **To what, where:** right appointment, urgent cases · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» 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 (Receptionists, problem, problems), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:5
# text = Receptionists ask what the problem is so they can find the right appointment and spot urgent cases first, sometimes with a nurse or pharmacist or by phone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.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	Receptionists	receptionist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Receptionists |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the problem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | can | problems *= problem* | the right appointment |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Topic |
| 4 | **spot** | infinitive | problems *= problem* *not said here* | urgent cases |  |  |  | with a nurse or pharmacist or phone; first *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent case=Destination with nurse=Theme |

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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:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:5`.

**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.

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