--- title: Long hospital stays are scary for families; children need honest ans… — When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babi… · tree and pragmatics description: Long hospital stays are scary for families; children need honest answers and someone to talk to, and imagining the worst alone makes it harder. Who acts: Long hospital stays, children, imagining. A sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» of the ref --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/14-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/14-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes/) / 9 # When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 9 Long hospital stays are scary for families; children need honest answers and someone to talk to, and imagining the worst alone makes it harder. **Who acts:** Long hospital stays, children, imagining · **What happens:** be, need, talk, imagine, make · **To what, where:** honest answers, worst This is a sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» of the reflection 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 (Long hospital stays, children, imagining), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:9 # text = Long hospital stays are scary for families; children need honest answers and someone to talk to, and imagining the worst alone makes it harder. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 stays stay NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 17 to to ADP IN _ 16 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 imagining imagine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 csubj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 worst bad NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 fixed _ _ 24 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:expl 26 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Long hospital stays | | | | | for families; scary *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | children | honest answers | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme | | 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **imagine** | gerund | | the worst | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | imagining | worst *= bad* | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:reflection:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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