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title: A vet checks a pet's eyes, ears, teeth, skin and coat during a check… — The vet · tree and pragmatics
description: A vet checks a pet's eyes, ears, teeth, skin and coat during a check-up, because many illnesses show there first. Who acts: vet, many illnesses. 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 16

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A vet checks a pet's eyes, ears, teeth, skin and coat during a check-up, because many illnesses show there first.

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**Who acts:** vet, many illnesses · **What happens:** check, show · **To what, where:** eyes

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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 (vet, many illnesses), 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:16
# text = A vet checks a pet's eyes, ears, teeth, skin and coat during a check-up, because many illnesses show there first.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | present | a vet | a pet's eyes and ears and teeth and skin and coat |  |  | during a check up |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | present | many illnesses |  |  | there |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:16`.

**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. **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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