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title: Play specialists use dolls, pictures and games to show children what… — The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic · tree and pragmatics
description: Play specialists use dolls, pictures and games to show children what will happen and to distract them during procedures. Who acts: Play specialists. A sentence of the lesson «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic, sentence 11

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Play specialists use dolls, pictures and games to show children what will happen and to distract them during procedures.

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**Who acts:** Play specialists · **What happens:** use, show, happen, distract · **To what, where:** dolls, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Play specialists), 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:11
# text = Play specialists use dolls, pictures and games to show children what will happen and to distract them during procedures.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	specialists	specialist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	distract	distract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	procedures	procedure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Play specialists | dolls and pictures and games |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Play specialists *not said here* |  | children |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **happen** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **distract** | to-infinitive | Play specialists *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  | during procedures |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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:11`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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