--- title: Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Most illnesses get better, and many serious ones, even many cancers, can be treated; doctors save a great many li --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Illness, hospitals and children who ar… # Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill Lesson 59 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/0/) — Most illnesses get better, and many serious ones, even many cancers, can be treated; doctors save a great many lives, but they cannot promise every time, and honest grown-ups say so gently. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/1/) — Picture Mason at Grandad's hospital bed: tubes, wires and beeping machines make him hide behind his mum, until a nurse explains that the machines help Grandad breathe and let the nurses watch his heart, and Mason holds Grandad's hand. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/2/) — Cancer cannot be caught like a cold; a classmate with leukaemia is not catching, but his treatment makes it hard for his body to fight germs, and it can make hair fall out for a while, which usually grows back. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/3/) — Very rarely, a child gets an illness doctors cannot cure; a children's hospice is a calm place with toys and a garden where very ill children and their families are cared for, kept comfortable and helped to enjoy the time they have. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/4/) — Christians pray for the sick and believe God is with them whether they get better or not; many hospitals have chaplains of different faiths, and people of every faith and none help by cooking meals, sending cards and being good friends. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/5/) — Cancer is a serious illness, but many people get better with treatment; doctors cannot always say at first. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/6/) — Some cancer treatments make hair fall out; it usually grows back afterwards. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/7/) — Hospital machines help sick people breathe, eat or keep track of their heartbeat; the beeps let nurses watch. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/8/) — Leukaemia is a kind of blood cancer; it cannot be caught from another person. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/9/) — Children having cancer treatment must avoid germs, because the treatment makes it harder to fight infections. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/10/) — Teasing someone about how an illness has changed their body is cruel; standing up for them or telling a teacher is right. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/11/) — Most children grow up and live long lives; it is rare for a child to die of illness. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/12/) — A hospice cares for people who are very ill, to keep them comfortable and help them live as well as they can; Cicely Saunders, a Christian nurse and doctor, started the modern hospice movement in the 1960s. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/13/) — Operations have some risks, but most go well, and doctors explain the risks to the family. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/15/) — A hospital chaplain is a religious leader who visits patients and families; many hospitals have chaplains of different faiths. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/16/) — Doctors save many lives and ease pain, but no doctor can stop everyone from dying one day. - ← previous: [When a grandparent dies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/) - next →: [Accidents, wars and deaths on the news](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)