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title: There are never enough donors: Ollie hears that people needing a new… — Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood · tree and pragmatics
description: There are never enough donors: Ollie hears that people needing a new kidney often wait for years, because the organ must match the sick person's body, a bit like a key that has to fit its lock. Who acts: enough donors, Ollie, people, organ. A sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and
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# Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 2

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There are never enough donors: Ollie hears that people needing a new kidney often wait for years, because the organ must match the sick person's body, a bit like a key that has to fit its lock.

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**Who acts:** enough donors, Ollie, people, organ, key · **What happens:** be, hear, need, wait, match, have · **To what, where:** new kidney, body, lock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» 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 (enough donors, Ollie, people, organ), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:2
# text = There are never enough donors: Ollie hears that people needing a new kidney often wait for years, because the organ must match the sick person's body, a bit like a key that has to fit its lock.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.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): no change
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	donors	donor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
11	needing	need	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	kidney	kidney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | enough donors |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | present | Ollie |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **need** | gerund | people *not said here* | a new kidney |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kidney=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | present | people |  |  |  | year | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **match** | must | the organ | the sick person's body |  |  |  | a bit like a key *obl:unmarked* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | a key |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fit** | to-infinitive | a key *not said here* | person's lock |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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