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title: Some apes are trained to put an arm into a special sleeve for blood… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some apes are trained to put an arm into a special sleeve for blood tests while awake; gorillas often get heart disease, like people, so zoos check their hearts with scans. Who acts: apes, gorillas, zoos. A sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» of the biolog
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# Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 6

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Some apes are trained to put an arm into a special sleeve for blood tests while awake; gorillas often get heart disease, like people, so zoos check their hearts with scans.

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**Who acts:** apes, gorillas, zoos · **What happens:** train, put, get, check · **To what, where:** apes, arm, special sleeve, heart disease, hearts

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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 (apes, gorillas, zoos), 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:6
# text = Some apes are trained to put an arm into a special sleeve for blood tests while awake; gorillas often get heart disease, like people, so zoos check their hearts with scans.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	scans	scan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **train** | present · passive |  | some apes |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | some apes *not said here* | a arm |  | a special sleeve |  | for blood tests | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal |
| 3 | **get** | present | gorillas | heart disease |  |  |  | like people; often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer disease=Stimulus |
| 4 | **check** | infinitive | zoos | people's hearts |  |  |  | with scans | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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): R7-rel-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/).

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