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title: A GP is a general practitioner, or family doctor, who looks after al… — The GP, the family doctor and the nurse · tree and pragmatics
description: A GP is a general practitioner, or family doctor, who looks after all kinds of health problems and refers people to specialists if needed. Who acts: GP, general practitioner. A sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 4

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A GP is a general practitioner, or family doctor, who looks after all kinds of health problems and refers people to specialists if needed.

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**Who acts:** GP, general practitioner · **What happens:** be, look, refer, need · **To what, where:** general practitioner, people, specialists

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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 (GP, general practitioner), 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:4
# text = A GP is a general practitioner, or family doctor, who looks after all kinds of health problems and refers people to specialists if needed.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	GP	gp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	practitioner	practitioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	specialists	specialist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 a** | present | a GP | a general practitioner or family doctor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | a general practitioner or family doctor |  |  |  | after all kinds of health problems |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **refer** | present | a general practitioner or family doctor *not said here* | people | specialists |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Theme to specialist=Recipient |
| 4 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a general practitioner or family doctor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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): 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.

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