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title: A continuous glucose monitor has a tiny thread under the skin that m… — A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term c… · tree and pragmatics
description: A continuous glucose monitor has a tiny thread under the skin that measures sugar every few minutes and sends it to a phone. Who acts: continuous glucose monitor, skin. A sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» of the medicine course of Mova's primary schoo
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# A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions, sentence 7

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A continuous glucose monitor has a tiny thread under the skin that measures sugar every few minutes and sends it to a phone.

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**Who acts:** continuous glucose monitor, skin · **What happens:** have, measure, send · **To what, where:** tiny thread, skin, sugar, phone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» of the medicine 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 (continuous glucose monitor, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.lesson:7
# text = A continuous glucose monitor has a tiny thread under the skin that measures sugar every few minutes and sends it to a phone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	continuous	continuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	glucose	glucose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	monitor	monitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	measures	measure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | a continuous glucose monitor | a tiny thread |  | the skin |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient |
| 2 | **measure** | present | the skin | sugar |  |  | minute |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme sugar=Value |
| 3 | **send** | present | the skin *not said here* | sugar |  | a phone |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to phone=Destination |

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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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**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): no change. **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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