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title: Illness is never a child's fault: not a quarrel, not a bad thought,… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Illness is never a child's fault: not a quarrel, not a bad thought, not something you forgot to do caused it, and you cannot catch cancer or depression from someone. Who acts: Illness, you. A sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine course of Mova'
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 1

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Illness is never a child's fault: not a quarrel, not a bad thought, not something you forgot to do caused it, and you cannot catch cancer or depression from someone.

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**Who acts:** Illness, you · **What happens:** not be, forget, not do, cause, not catch · **To what, where:** fault, Illness, cancer, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» 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 (Illness, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:033-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent.lesson:1
# text = Illness is never a child's fault: not a quarrel, not a bad thought, not something you forgot to do caused it, and you cannot catch cancer or depression from someone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 033-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent.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
1	Illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
32	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	depression	depression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Illness | a child's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cause** | past |  | Illness |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **catch** | can | you | cancer or depression |  | someone |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cancer=Theme from someone=Source |

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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:033-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent.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): 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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