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title: Doctor Dolittle asks the animals what is wrong and cartoon animals b… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Doctor Dolittle asks the animals what is wrong and cartoon animals bounce back from any bump; a real zoo vet cannot talk to her patients, so she watches, weighs, scans and tests, and real injuries take real treatment and time. Who acts: Doctor, cartoon animals, real zoo vet, animal. A sentence of th
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# Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 3

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Doctor Dolittle asks the animals what is wrong and cartoon animals bounce back from any bump; a real zoo vet cannot talk to her patients, so she watches, weighs, scans and tests, and real injuries take real treatment and time.

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**Who acts:** Doctor, cartoon animals, real zoo vet, animal, real injuries · **What happens:** ask, be, bounce back, not talk, watch, weigh · **To what, where:** animals, bump, real treatment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» of the biology 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 (Doctor, cartoon animals, real zoo vet, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:3
# text = Doctor Dolittle asks the animals what is wrong and cartoon animals bounce back from any bump; a real zoo vet cannot talk to her patients, so she watches, weighs, scans and tests, and real injuries take real treatment and time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Dolittle	Dolittle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bounce	bounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	bump	bump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	scans	scan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=33:conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
43	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Doctor |  | the animals |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bounce back** | present | cartoon animals |  |  | any bump |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bump=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **talk** | can | a real zoo vet |  |  |  |  | to vet's patients | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to patient=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **watch** | present | animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **weigh** | present | animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **scan** | present | animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **take** | present | real injuries | real treatment and time |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme |

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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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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