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title: A doctor looks inside the ear with an otoscope, a small torch with a… — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: A doctor looks inside the ear with an otoscope, a small torch with a magnifying lens. Who acts: doctor. A sentence of the lesson «Sore throats, ears and eyes» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sore throats, ears and eyes, sentence 16

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A doctor looks inside the ear with an otoscope, a small torch with a magnifying lens.

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**Who acts:** doctor · **What happens:** look, magnify

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:16
# text = A doctor looks inside the ear with an otoscope, a small torch with a magnifying lens.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.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	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	otoscope	otoscope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	lens	lens	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a doctor |  |  |  |  | with a otoscope; inside the ear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside ear=Theme |
| 2 | **magnify** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:16`.

**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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