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title: Some say the NHS needs much more money; others say it needs big chan… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Some say the NHS needs much more money; others say it needs big changes and more help from private companies, and some worry that this takes staff away. Who acts: Some, NHS, others, this. A sentence of the lesson «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» of the politics course of Mova's primary school
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# Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 14

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Some say the NHS needs much more money; others say it needs big changes and more help from private companies, and some worry that this takes staff away.

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**Who acts:** Some, NHS, others, this · **What happens:** say, need, worry, take away · **To what, where:** more money, big changes, staff · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Some, NHS, others, this), 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:14
# text = Some say the NHS needs much more money; others say it needs big changes and more help from private companies, and some worry that this takes staff away.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	NHS	NHS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
25	worry	worry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
28	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
29	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **need** | present | the NHS | more money |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **need** | present | NHS | big changes and more help from private companies |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot change=Theme |
| 5 | **worry** | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **take away** | present | this | staff |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=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:politics:020-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill.lesson:14`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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