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title: Before an operation the anaesthetist, a doctor whose whole job is ke… — The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic · tree and pragmatics
description: Before an operation the anaesthetist, a doctor whose whole job is keeping you safe asleep, gives you a general anaesthetic through a mask or a thin tube in your hand. Who acts: whole job, anaesthetist. A sentence of the lesson «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» of the medicine course of
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# The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic, sentence 1

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Before an operation the anaesthetist, a doctor whose whole job is keeping you safe asleep, gives you a general anaesthetic through a mask or a thin tube in your hand.

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**Who acts:** whole job, anaesthetist · **What happens:** keep, give · **To what, where:** you, general anaesthetic, mask

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» 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 (whole job, anaesthetist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:028-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic.lesson:1
# text = Before an operation the anaesthetist, a doctor whose whole job is keeping you safe asleep, gives you a general anaesthetic through a mask or a thin tube in your hand.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 028-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	anaesthetist	anaesthetist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	asleep	asleep	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	anaesthetic	anaesthetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mask	mask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **keep** | present · progressive | whole job | you |  |  |  | asleep, safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | the anaesthetist | a general anaesthetic | you | a mask or a thin tube in your hand | before a operation |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anaesthetic=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:028-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic.lesson:1`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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