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title: Keyhole surgery uses small cuts and a camera, so healing is usually… — The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic · tree and pragmatics
description: Keyhole surgery uses small cuts and a camera, so healing is usually quicker and scars smaller; appendix operations are often done this way. Who acts: Keyhole surgery, healing, scars. A sentence of the lesson «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» of the medicine course of Mova's primary sch
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# The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic, sentence 10

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Keyhole surgery uses small cuts and a camera, so healing is usually quicker and scars smaller; appendix operations are often done this way.

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**Who acts:** Keyhole surgery, healing, scars · **What happens:** use, be, do · **To what, where:** small cuts, appendix operations

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» 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 (Keyhole surgery, healing, scars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:028-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic.lesson:10
# text = Keyhole surgery uses small cuts and a camera, so healing is usually quicker and scars smaller; appendix operations are often done this way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 028-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	appendix	appendix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **use** | present | Keyhole surgery | small cuts and a camera |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | healing |  |  |  |  | quick, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | scars |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | present · passive |  | appendix operations |  |  |  | this way *obl:unmarked*; often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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): R8-pos-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.

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