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title: A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its st… — The vet · tree and pragmatics
description: A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its stitches, because licking can open the wound. Who acts: cone, licking. 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 clause.
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# The vet, sentence 11

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A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its stitches, because licking can open the wound.

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**Who acts:** cone, licking · **What happens:** stop, lick, open · **To what, where:** operation, stitches, wound

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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 (cone, licking), 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:11
# text = A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its stitches, because licking can open the wound.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	licking	lick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	licking	lick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | a cone round a pet's neck | operation |  |  | after a operation |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lick** | gerund | a cone round a pet's neck *not said here* | operation's stitches |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent stitch=Source |
| 3 | **lick** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **open** | can | licking | the wound |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wound=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:11`.

**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. **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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