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title: Dogs sometimes swallow odd things like socks and toys; an X-ray can… — The vet · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs sometimes swallow odd things like socks and toys; an X-ray can show them, and some objects block the gut and need an operation. Who acts: Dogs, X ray, objects. A sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The vet, sentence 10

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Dogs sometimes swallow odd things like socks and toys; an X-ray can show them, and some objects block the gut and need an operation.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, X ray, objects · **What happens:** swallow, show, block, need · **To what, where:** odd things, things, gut, operation

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» 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 (Dogs, X ray, objects), 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:10
# text = Dogs sometimes swallow odd things like socks and toys; an X-ray can show them, and some objects block the gut and need an operation.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	block	block	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **swallow** | present | Dogs | odd things |  |  |  | like socks and toys; sometimes *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | can | a X ray | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **block** | present | some objects | the gut |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gut=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present | some objects *not said here* | a operation |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=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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**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:10`.

**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.

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