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title: It is natural for a child to feel scared, sad or angry when a parent… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is natural for a child to feel scared, sad or angry when a parent is ill, and the illness is never the child's fault. Who acts: parent, illness. 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 
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 6

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It is natural for a child to feel scared, sad or angry when a parent is ill, and the illness is never the child's fault.

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**Who acts:** parent, illness · **What happens:** be, feel, not be · **To what, where:** fault

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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 (parent, illness), 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:6
# text = It is natural for a child to feel scared, sad or angry when a parent is ill, and the illness is never the child's fault.
# 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
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | a child *obl*; natural *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | a parent |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | the illness | the child's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:6`.

**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. **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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