--- title: Before a general anaesthetic the stomach must be empty, called nil b… — The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic · tree and pragmatics description: Before a general anaesthetic the stomach must be empty, called nil by mouth, so food can't come up and get into the lungs; if someone eats anyway, the operation may have to be put off. Who acts: stomach, food, someone, operation. 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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 (stomach, food, someone, operation), 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:6 # text = Before a general anaesthetic the stomach must be empty, called nil by mouth, so food can't come up and get into the lungs; if someone eats anyway, the operation may have to be put off. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Before before ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 anaesthetic anaesthetic NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 12 nil nil NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 21 up up ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 nsubj _ _ 30 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 31 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 operation operation NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 xcomp _ _ 40 off off ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | must | the stomach | | | | before a general anaesthetic | empty *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | the stomach *not said here* | nil | | | | by mouth | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **come up** | can | food | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | food *not said here* | | | the lungs | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into lung=Destination | | 5 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | | | | | anyway *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | may | the operation | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **put off** | to-infinitive · passive | the operation *not said here* | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | 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:6`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. 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