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title: Some say Obamacare protected sick people and helped millions; others… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Some say Obamacare protected sick people and helped millions; others say it raised costs for some and put too many rules on businesses. Who acts: Some, Obamacare, others, Act. A sentence of the lesson «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 17

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Some say Obamacare protected sick people and helped millions; others say it raised costs for some and put too many rules on businesses.

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**Who acts:** Some, Obamacare, others, Act · **What happens:** say, protect, help, raise, put · **To what, where:** sick people, millions, costs, many rules, businesses · **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, Obamacare, others, Act), 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:17
# text = Some say Obamacare protected sick people and helped millions; others say it raised costs for some and put too many rules on businesses.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
3	Obamacare	Obamacare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	costs	cost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	businesses	business	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **protect** | past | Obamacare |  | sick people |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **help** | past | Obamacare *not said here* | millions |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **raise** | past | Act | costs |  |  |  | for some | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Theme |
| 6 | **put** | past | Act *not said here* | many rules |  | businesses |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme on business=Destination |

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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): R8-pos-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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