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title: A stethoscope lets the doctor hear the heart and lungs, and wheezes… — The GP, the family doctor and the nurse · tree and pragmatics
description: A stethoscope lets the doctor hear the heart and lungs, and wheezes or crackles can be signs of illness. Who acts: stethoscope, doctor, wheezes. A sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 6

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A stethoscope lets the doctor hear the heart and lungs, and wheezes or crackles can be signs of illness.

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**Who acts:** stethoscope, doctor, wheezes · **What happens:** let, hear, be · **To what, where:** doctor, heart, signs

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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 (stethoscope, doctor, wheezes), 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:6
# text = A stethoscope lets the doctor hear the heart and lungs, and wheezes or crackles can be signs of illness.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stethoscope	stethoscope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	wheezes	wheeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	crackles	crackle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **let** | present | a stethoscope | the doctor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | infinitive | the doctor *not said here* | the heart and lungs |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | can | wheezes or crackles | signs |  |  |  | of illness | 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:6`.

**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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