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title: A specialist is a doctor who focuses on one part of the body or one… — The GP, the family doctor and the nurse · tree and pragmatics
description: A specialist is a doctor who focuses on one part of the body or one kind of illness, and being referred doesn't mean something terrible is wrong. Who acts: specialist, doctor, something. A sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine course of Mova's primary schoo
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# The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 12

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A specialist is a doctor who focuses on one part of the body or one kind of illness, and being referred doesn't mean something terrible is wrong.

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**Who acts:** specialist, doctor, something · **What happens:** be, focus, refer, not mean · **To what, where:** doctor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (specialist, doctor, something), 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:12
# text = A specialist is a doctor who focuses on one part of the body or one kind of illness, and being referred doesn't mean something terrible is wrong.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	specialist	specialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	focuses	focus	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	csubj	_	_
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
27	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a specialist | a doctor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **focus** | present | a doctor |  |  |  |  | on one part of the body or one kind of illness | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on part=Topic |
| 3 | **refer** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme» |
| 4 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | a specialist *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | something |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | 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:12`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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