--- title: The rules that seem odd have good reasons: no food beforehand so not… — The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic · tree and pragmatics description: The rules that seem odd have good reasons: no food beforehand so nothing can come up into the lungs, numbing cream so the needle hurts less, and a form signed so everyone agrees what will happen. Who acts: rules, food, needle, form. 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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 (rules, food, needle, form), 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:3 # text = The rules that seem odd have good reasons: no food beforehand so nothing can come up into the lungs, numbing cream so the needle hurts less, and a form signed so everyone agrees what will happen. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 beforehand beforehand ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 13 so so SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 17 up up ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 numbing numb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 23 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 so so SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:outer _ _ 33 signed sign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 36 nsubj _ _ 36 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obj 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:conj 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **seem** | present | the rules | | | | | odd *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | the rules | good reasons | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 3 | **come up** | can | no food | | | the lungs | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into lung=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **numb** | gerund | no food *not said here* | cream | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cream=Experiencer | | 5 | **hurt** | present | the needle | | | | | less *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **sign** | participle | | a form *not said here* | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | a form | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **happen** | future | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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. 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