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title: In the US most people get health insurance through work, buy it them… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics
description: In the US most people get health insurance through work, buy it themselves, or get it from government programmes for older or poorer people; insurance pays much of the bill, and you may have to pay the rest yourself. Who acts: most people, you, insurance. A sentence of the lesson «Healthcare: who pa
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# Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 15

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In the US most people get health insurance through work, buy it themselves, or get it from government programmes for older or poorer people; insurance pays much of the bill, and you may have to pay the rest yourself.

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**Who acts:** most people, you, insurance · **What happens:** get, buy, pay, have · **To what, where:** health insurance, work, insurance, government programmes, much, rest

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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 (most people, you, insurance), 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:15
# text = In the US most people get health insurance through work, buy it themselves, or get it from government programmes for older or poorer people; insurance pays much of the bill, and you may have to pay the rest yourself.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
7	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	insurance	insurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
12	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	programmes	programme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	insurance	insurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **get** | present | most people | health insurance |  | work |  | in the US | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer insurance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **buy** | imperative | you *not said here* | insurance |  |  |  | people *obl* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive |  | insurance |  | government programmes for older people |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from programme=Source |
| 4 | **pay** | present | insurance | much |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Asset |
| 5 | **have** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the rest |  |  |  | yourself *obl:unmarked* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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