--- title: Hospital machines help sick people breathe, eat or keep track of the… — Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill · tree and pragmatics description: Hospital machines help sick people breathe, eat or keep track of their heartbeat; the beeps let nurses watch. Who acts: Hospital machines, sick people, beeps, nurses. A sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school wi --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 7 Hospital machines help sick people breathe, eat or keep track of their heartbeat; the beeps let nurses watch. **Who acts:** Hospital machines, sick people, beeps, nurses · **What happens:** help, breathe, eat, keep, let, watch · **To what, where:** sick people, track, nurses 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 (Hospital machines, sick people, beeps, nurses), 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:7 # text = Hospital machines help sick people breathe, eat or keep track of their heartbeat; the beeps let nurses watch. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 11 track track NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 heartbeat heartbeat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 beeps beep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 19 nurses nurse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Hospital machines | sick people | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **breathe** | infinitive | sick people *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **eat** | infinitive | sick people *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | infinitive | sick people *not said here* | track of people's heartbeat | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | the beeps | nurses | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **watch** | infinitive | nurses *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:7`. **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, 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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