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title: Children in hospital can often keep in touch with friends through vi… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Children in hospital can often keep in touch with friends through visits, video calls, cards and messages. Who acts: Children. 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
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 5

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Children in hospital can often keep in touch with friends through visits, video calls, cards and messages.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** touch

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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 (Children), 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:5
# text = Children in hospital can often keep in touch with friends through visits, video calls, cards and messages.
# 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	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | can | Children in hospital |  |  | touch with friends |  | through visits and video calls and cards and messages; often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=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:5`.

**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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