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title: It was reported that resident doctors in England went on strike seve… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that resident doctors in England went on strike several times over pay, saying it had fallen behind prices; the government said it could not afford what they asked, and emergency care continued. Who acts: resident doctors, part, government, people. A sentence of the lesson «Healthcar
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# Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, sentence 23

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It was reported that resident doctors in England went on strike several times over pay, saying it had fallen behind prices; the government said it could not afford what they asked, and emergency care continued.

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**Who acts:** resident doctors, part, government, people · **What happens:** report, go, say, fall, not afford, ask · **To what, where:** part, strike, prices, emergency care · **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 (resident doctors, part, government, 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:23
# text = It was reported that resident doctors in England went on strike several times over pay, saying it had fallen behind prices; the government said it could not afford what they asked, and emergency care continued.
# 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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	resident	resident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past · passive |  | part |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **go** | past | resident doctors in England |  |  | strike | time | over pay | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over pay=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | resident doctors in England *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | part |  |  | prices |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind price=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the government |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **afford** | could | part |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 8 | **continue** | participle · passive |  | emergency care |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |

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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): 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.

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