--- title: Ultrasound uses sound waves to show a baby inside its mother, as for… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal ho… · tree and pragmatics description: Ultrasound uses sound waves to show a baby inside its mother, as for people, and elephants and big cats have been trained to stay still for scans in return for treats. Who acts: Ultrasound, elephants. A sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital/8/) [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/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital/) / 8 # Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 8 Ultrasound uses sound waves to show a baby inside its mother, as for people, and elephants and big cats have been trained to stay still for scans in return for treats. **Who acts:** Ultrasound, elephants · **What happens:** use, show, train, stay · **To what, where:** sound waves, baby, elephants, return 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 (Ultrasound, elephants), 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:8 # text = Ultrasound uses sound waves to show a baby inside its mother, as for people, and elephants and big cats have been trained to stay still for scans in return for treats. # 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 ×4 1 Ultrasound ultrasound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 inside inside ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advcl 27 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 scans scan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 treats treat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Ultrasound | sound waves | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Ultrasound *not said here* | a baby | | | | inside Ultrasound's mother; as people | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient | | 3 | **train** | present · perfect · passive | | elephants and big cats | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **stay** | to-infinitive | elephants and big cats *not said here* | | | return for treats | still | for scans | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in return=Location | 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:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:8`. **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 ×4. **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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