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title: Vets often take a pet's temperature with a thermometer under the tai… — The vet · tree and pragmatics
description: Vets often take a pet's temperature with a thermometer under the tail, because it gives an accurate reading. Who acts: Vets, vet. 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 7

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Vets often take a pet's temperature with a thermometer under the tail, because it gives an accurate reading.

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**Who acts:** Vets, vet · **What happens:** take, give · **To what, where:** temperature, accurate reading

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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 (Vets, 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:7
# text = Vets often take a pet's temperature with a thermometer under the tail, because it gives an accurate reading.
# 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	Vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **take** | present | Vets | a pet's temperature |  |  |  | with a thermometer under the tail; often *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | vet | a accurate reading |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=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:7`.

**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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