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title: Most illnesses aren't passed from parent to child, and doctors can a… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most illnesses aren't passed from parent to child, and doctors can answer questions about family risk. Who acts: doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 15

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Most illnesses aren't passed from parent to child, and doctors can answer questions about family risk.

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**Who acts:** doctors · **What happens:** not pass, answer · **To what, where:** Most illnesses, questions

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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 (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:15
# text = Most illnesses aren't passed from parent to child, and doctors can answer questions about family risk.
# 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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** **pass** | present · passive |  | Most illnesses |  |  |  | from parent to child | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from parent=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | can | doctors | questions |  |  |  | about family risk | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |

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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:15`.

**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): no change. **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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