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title: Children's wards let a parent stay and have play areas and friendly… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Children's wards let a parent stay and have play areas and friendly staff, so a child in hospital is not left alone. Who acts: wards. 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 pragma
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 4

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Children's wards let a parent stay and have play areas and friendly staff, so a child in hospital is not left alone.

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**Who acts:** wards · **What happens:** let, stay, have, not leave · **To what, where:** play areas, child

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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 (wards), 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:4
# text = Children's wards let a parent stay and have play areas and friendly staff, so a child in hospital is not left alone.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	wards	ward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **let** | present | Children's wards |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | Children's wards *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | Children's wards *not said here* | play areas and friendly staff |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **leave** | present · passive |  | a child in hospital |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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