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title: At the yearly check-up a dog gets an injection, a vaccine that teach… — The vet · tree and pragmatics
description: At the yearly check-up a dog gets an injection, a vaccine that teaches its body to fight dangerous illnesses before it ever meets them. Who acts: yearly check dog, vaccine, body, vet. A sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# The vet, sentence 2

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At the yearly check-up a dog gets an injection, a vaccine that teaches its body to fight dangerous illnesses before it ever meets them.

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**Who acts:** yearly check dog, vaccine, body, vet · **What happens:** get, teach, fight, meet · **To what, where:** injection, body, dangerous illnesses, dogs

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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 (yearly check dog, vaccine, body, vet), 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:2
# text = At the yearly check-up a dog gets an injection, a vaccine that teaches its body to fight dangerous illnesses before it ever meets them.
# 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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
4	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl
9	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	injection	injection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **get** | present | the yearly check dog | a injection |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer injection=Stimulus |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | a vaccine | vaccine's body |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | vaccine's body *not said here* | dangerous illnesses |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **meet** | present | vet | dogs *= dog* |  |  | ever |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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:2`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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