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title: Weight tells a lot about health; losing weight can be the first sign… — The vet · tree and pragmatics
description: Weight tells a lot about health; losing weight can be the first sign of illness, so even a hamster is weighed on small scales. Who acts: Weight, losing. 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 8

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Weight tells a lot about health; losing weight can be the first sign of illness, so even a hamster is weighed on small scales.

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**Who acts:** Weight, losing · **What happens:** tell, lose, be, weigh · **To what, where:** lot, weight, first sign, hamster, small scales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Weight, losing), 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:8
# text = Weight tells a lot about health; losing weight can be the first sign of illness, so even a hamster is weighed on small scales.
# 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	Weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj
9	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Weight | a lot |  |  |  | about health | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient about health=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund |  | weight |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | can | losing | the first sign |  |  |  | of illness | tree rules |
| 4 | **weigh** | present · passive |  | a hamster |  | small scales |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |

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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:8`.

**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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