--- title: A vet is a doctor for animals, but unlike a children's doctor, a vet… — The vet · tree and pragmatics description: A vet is a doctor for animals, but unlike a children's doctor, a vet must know about dogs, cats, hamsters, horses, cows and snakes, all with different bodies, and none of the patients can say where it hurts. Who acts: vet, all. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vet, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:0 # text = A vet is a doctor for animals, but unlike a children's doctor, a vet must know about dogs, cats, hamsters, horses, cows and snakes, all with different bodies, and none of the patients can say where it hurts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 227-the-vet.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, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 10 unlike unlike ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj 32 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 44 nsubj:outer _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 44 nsubj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 patients patient NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 45 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 47 advmod _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 ccomp _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a vet | a doctor | | | | for animals | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | must | a vet | | | | | unlike a children's doctor; about dogs and cats and hamsters and horses and cows and snakes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about dog=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | all | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **hurt** | present | vet | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | 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:227-the-vet.lesson:0`. **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, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Kindness to wild animals, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/16/) - next →: [The vet, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/)