--- title: Cancer is a serious illness, but many people get better with treatme… — Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill · tree and pragmatics description: Cancer is a serious illness, but many people get better with treatment; doctors cannot always say at first. Who acts: Cancer, many people, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 5 Cancer is a serious illness, but many people get better with treatment; doctors cannot always say at first. **Who acts:** Cancer, many people, doctors · **What happens:** be, get, not say · **To what, where:** serious illness · **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 (Cancer, many people, doctors), 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:5 # text = Cancer is a serious illness, but many people get better with treatment; doctors cannot always say at first. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cancer Cancer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 19 advmod _ _ 19 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Cancer | a serious illness | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | many people | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | can | doctors | | | | | always *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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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. 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