--- title: So a vet looks, listens and measures: the stethoscope tells about th… — The vet · tree and pragmatics description: So a vet looks, listens and measures: the stethoscope tells about the heart and lungs, the thermometer about fever, the scales about weight, and an X-ray shows what is inside, like the sock a greedy dog swallowed. Who acts: vet, stethoscope, X ray, greedy dog. 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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, stethoscope, X ray, greedy dog), 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:1 # text = So a vet looks, listens and measures: the stethoscope tells about the heart and lungs, the thermometer about fever, the scales about weight, and an X-ray shows what is inside, like the sock a greedy dog swallowed. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 listens listen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 measures measure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 11 stethoscope stethoscope NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound 12 tells tell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 thermometer thermometer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 26 about about ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 X x NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 ray ray NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 obj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 inside inside ADV RB _ 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sock sock NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | a vet | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **listen** | present | a vet *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **measure** | present | a vet *not said here* | | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | | the stethoscope | | | | | about the heart and lungs | tree rules | | 5 | **show** | present | a X ray | | | | | like the sock | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | inside *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **swallow** | past | a greedy dog | the sock *not said here* | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Patient | 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:1`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [The vet, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/0/) - next →: [The vet, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/)