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title: Canada's public system, paid by taxes and run by each province, cove… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Canada's public system, paid by taxes and run by each province, covers doctor visits and hospital care; it was reported that waits for some specialists and surgeries can be long. Who acts: public system, waits. A sentence of the lesson «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» of the politics course o
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# Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 19

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Canada's public system, paid by taxes and run by each province, covers doctor visits and hospital care; it was reported that waits for some specialists and surgeries can be long.

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**Who acts:** public system, waits · **What happens:** pay, run, cover, report, be · **To what, where:** public system, doctor visits, system

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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 (public system, waits), 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:19
# text = Canada's public system, paid by taxes and run by each province, covers doctor visits and hospital care; it was reported that waits for some specialists and surgeries can be long.
# 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): no change
1	Canada	Canada	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	15	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
26	waits	wait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	specialists	specialist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	surgeries	surgery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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** | participle |  | Canada's public system *not said here* |  |  |  | by taxes | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by each province | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by province=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cover** | present | Canada's public system | doctor visits and hospital care |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme visit=Destination |
| 4 | **report** | past · passive |  | system |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | can | waits for some specialists and surgeries |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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): no change. **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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