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title: Hospitals look frightening with their beeping machines, but the beep… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hospitals look frightening with their beeping machines, but the beeps are mostly reminders for nurses, and a children's ward lets a parent stay with you. Who acts: Hospitals, beeps, ward. A sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine course of Mova's 
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 2

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Hospitals look frightening with their beeping machines, but the beeps are mostly reminders for nurses, and a children's ward lets a parent stay with you.

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**Who acts:** Hospitals, beeps, ward · **What happens:** look, be, let, stay · **To what, where:** reminders

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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 (Hospitals, beeps, ward), 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:2
# text = Hospitals look frightening with their beeping machines, but the beeps are mostly reminders for nurses, and a children's ward lets a parent stay with you.
# 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	Hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	beeping	beep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
7	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beeps	beep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	reminders	reminder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	ward	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
25	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **look** | present | Hospitals |  |  |  |  | frightening *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the beeps | reminders |  |  |  | for nurses; mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | present | children's ward |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | children's ward *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location |

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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:2`.

**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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