--- title: The Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, became law in 2010;… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics description: The Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, became law in 2010; it made insurers cover people who were already ill, with a pre-existing condition, and helped many more people get insured. Who acts: Care Act, Act, insurers, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Care Act, Act, insurers, people), 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:16 # text = The Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, became law in 2010; it made insurers cover people who were already ill, with a pre-existing condition, and helped many more people get insured. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Affordable Affordable PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Care Care PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Act Act PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 8 Obamacare Obamacare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 11 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 insurers insurer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 already already ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 pre-existing pre-exist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 33 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 amod _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 insured insure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | the Care Act *not said here* | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **become** | past | the Care Act | law | | | | in 2010 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2010=Result | | 3 | **make** | past | Act | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cover** | infinitive | insurers | | people | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Destination | | 5 | **is** | past | people | | | | | with a pre-existing condition; ill *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **help** | past | Act *not said here* | more people | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 7 | **insure** | infinitive · passive | more people *not said here* | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING» | 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. **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:16`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/15/) - next →: [Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/)