--- title: Most illnesses get better, and many serious ones, even many cancers,… — Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Most illnesses, doctors, honest grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children --- [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/0/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/) / 0 # Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 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. **Who acts:** Most illnesses, doctors, honest grown ups · **What happens:** get, treat, save, not promise, grow, say · **To what, where:** many serious ones, great many lives · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» of the religion ethics 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 (Most illnesses, doctors, honest grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 illnesses illness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cancers cancer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 38 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 gently gently ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Most illnesses | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **treat** | can · passive | | many serious ones | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **save** | present | doctors | a great many lives | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 4 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* | can | doctors *= doctor* | | | | time | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | honest grown ups | | | | | gently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:religion-ethics:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [When a grandparent dies, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/18/) - next →: [Illness, hospitals and children who ar…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/)