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title: When someone is dying, doctors and nurses, including hospice and pal… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone is dying, doctors and nurses, including hospice and palliative care teams, keep them comfortable and free of pain, and support the family. Who acts: someone, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine course of Mova's primary 
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 10

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When someone is dying, doctors and nurses, including hospice and palliative care teams, keep them comfortable and free of pain, and support the family.

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**Who acts:** someone, doctors · **What happens:** die, keep, support · **To what, where:** teams, family

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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 (someone, doctors), 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:10
# text = When someone is dying, doctors and nurses, including hospice and palliative care teams, keep them comfortable and free of pain, and support the family.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	including	include	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hospice	hospice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	palliative	palliative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound
15	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **die** | present · progressive | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **keep** | present | doctors include hospice and palliative care and teams and nurses | teams *= team* |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **support** | infinitive | doctors include hospice and palliative care and teams and nurses *not said here* | the family |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus |

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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:10`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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