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title: At the surgery a doctor is like a detective: the clues are your answ… — The GP, the family doctor and the nurse · tree and pragmatics
description: At the surgery a doctor is like a detective: the clues are your answers, the sounds in your chest, the look of your ears and throat, and sometimes a blood test. Who acts: doctor, clues. A sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school
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# The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 1

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At the surgery a doctor is like a detective: the clues are your answers, the sounds in your chest, the look of your ears and throat, and sometimes a blood test.

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**Who acts:** doctor, clues · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** surgery, answers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» 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 (doctor, clues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:1
# text = At the surgery a doctor is like a detective: the clues are your answers, the sounds in your chest, the look of your ears and throat, and sometimes a blood test.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.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	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	detective	detective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | a doctor |  |  | the surgery |  | like a detective | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the clues | your answers and the sounds in your chest and the look of your ears and throat and a blood test |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:medicine:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:1`.

**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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