--- title: Before an operation doctors explain it, its risks and benefits, and… — The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic · tree and pragmatics description: Before an operation doctors explain it, its risks and benefits, and a parent signs a consent form; children are asked to agree too and may ask any question. Who acts: doctors, parent, children, doctor. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors, parent, children, doctor), 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:14 # text = Before an operation doctors explain it, its risks and benefits, and a parent signs a consent form; children are asked to agree too and may ask any question. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 3 operation operation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 4 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 risks risk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 benefits benefit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 signs sign VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 consent consent NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | doctors | a operation | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sign** | present | a parent | a consent form | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Destination | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | children | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | | any question | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 6 | **risk** | | doctor | | | | | | nom risk «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:14`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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. 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