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title: It was reported that NHS waiting lists grew very long, especially af… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that NHS waiting lists grew very long, especially after the COVID pandemic, with millions waiting for treatment; A&E is the hospital department for urgent problems. Who acts: NHS waiting lists, millions, A. A sentence of the lesson «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» of the polit
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# Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 13

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It was reported that NHS waiting lists grew very long, especially after the COVID pandemic, with millions waiting for treatment; A&E is the hospital department for urgent problems.

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**Who acts:** NHS waiting lists, millions, A · **What happens:** report, grow, wait, be · **To what, where:** healthcare, hospital department

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» of the politics 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 (NHS waiting lists, millions, A), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:020-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill.lesson:13
# text = It was reported that NHS waiting lists grew very long, especially after the COVID pandemic, with millions waiting for treatment; A&E is the hospital department for urgent problems.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 020-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill.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 ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	NHS	NHS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
7	lists	list	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	COVID	COVID	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
20	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	A	A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **report** | past · passive |  | healthcare |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **grow** | past | NHS waiting lists |  |  |  | after the COVID pandemic | with millions; long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | millions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for treatment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | A & E | the hospital department |  |  |  | for urgent problems | 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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**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 ×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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