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title: Australia's public system, Medicare, is paid by taxes and covers muc… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Australia's public system, Medicare, is paid by taxes and covers much of the cost of seeing a doctor, and at many doctors the patient pays nothing at the visit. Who acts: taxes, cost, patient. A sentence of the lesson «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» of the politics course of Mova's primary s
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# Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 18

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Australia's public system, Medicare, is paid by taxes and covers much of the cost of seeing a doctor, and at many doctors the patient pays nothing at the visit.

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**Who acts:** taxes, cost, patient · **What happens:** pay, cover, see · **To what, where:** public system, much, doctor, nothing, many doctors

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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 (taxes, cost, patient), 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:18
# text = Australia's public system, Medicare, is paid by taxes and covers much of the cost of seeing a doctor, and at many doctors the patient pays nothing at the visit.
# 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
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Medicare	Medicare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
13	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **pay** | present · passive | taxes | Australia's public system |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
| 2 | **cover** | present | taxes *not said here* | much |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | the cost *not said here* | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pay** | present | the patient | nothing |  | many doctors |  | at the visit | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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. **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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