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title: Good doctors talk to children directly, because children often know… — The GP, the family doctor and the nurse · tree and pragmatics
description: Good doctors talk to children directly, because children often know best how they feel. Who acts: Good doctors, children, height. A sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 9

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Good doctors talk to children directly, because children often know best how they feel.

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**Who acts:** Good doctors, children, height · **What happens:** talk, know, feel · **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 (Good doctors, children, height), 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:9
# text = Good doctors talk to children directly, because children often know best how they feel.
# 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	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | Good doctors |  |  |  |  | to children; directly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to child=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **know** | present | children |  |  |  |  | often, well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | present | height |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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: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): 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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