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title: Picture Sam, whose mum is in hospital: he helps at home, worries at… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Sam, whose mum is in hospital: he helps at home, worries at night and feels guilty when he laughs with friends; the best thing he can do is ask his questions and tell a grown-up he trusts how he feels. Who acts: you, mum, Sam, best thing. A sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a si
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 3

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Picture Sam, whose mum is in hospital: he helps at home, worries at night and feels guilty when he laughs with friends; the best thing he can do is ask his questions and tell a grown-up he trusts how he feels.

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**Who acts:** you, mum, Sam, best thing · **What happens:** picture, be, help, worry, feel, laugh · **To what, where:** Sam, hospital, home, best thing, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, mum, Sam, best thing), 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:3
# text = Picture Sam, whose mum is in hospital: he helps at home, worries at night and feels guilty when he laughs with friends; the best thing he can do is ask his questions and tell a grown-up he trusts how he feels.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	worries	worry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:outer	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:det
40	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	_
42	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	trusts	trust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Sam |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sam=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | hospital's mum |  |  | hospital |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | present | Sam |  |  | home |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **worry** | present | Sam *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **feel** | present | Sam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **laugh** | present | Sam |  |  |  |  | with friends | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **do** | can | Sam | the best thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 8 | **is** | present | the best thing |  |  |  |  | ask *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the best thing *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **trust** | present | Sam | grown *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grown-up=Theme |
| 11 | **feel** | present | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 12 | **question** |  | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:3`.

**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 ×3, 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.

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

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