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title: Cancer is when some cells grow out of control; there are many types,… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cancer is when some cells grow out of control; there are many types, many people get better with treatment, and you cannot catch it from someone. Who acts: Cancer, cells, many types, many people. A sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine course of
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 7

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Cancer is when some cells grow out of control; there are many types, many people get better with treatment, and you cannot catch it from someone.

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**Who acts:** Cancer, cells, many types, many people, you · **What happens:** be, grow out, get, not catch · **To what, where:** control, child, someone

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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 (Cancer, cells, many types, many people), 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:7
# text = Cancer is when some cells grow out of control; there are many types, many people get better with treatment, and you cannot catch it from someone.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Cancer	Cancer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	types	type	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | Cancer |  |  |  |  | when *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow out** | present | some cells | control |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location control=Theme |
| 3 | **does** | present | many types |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | present | many people |  |  |  |  | with treatment; good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **catch** | can | you | child |  | someone |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from someone=Source |

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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:7`.

**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, R6-punct-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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