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title: Doctors use tools to see inside us without cutting: a stethoscope to… — Medicines, doctors and hospitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Doctors use tools to see inside us without cutting: a stethoscope to listen to the heart and lungs, a thermometer to check for fever and X-rays to see bones. Who acts: Doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Medicines, doctors and hospitals, sentence 3

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Doctors use tools to see inside us without cutting: a stethoscope to listen to the heart and lungs, a thermometer to check for fever and X-rays to see bones.

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**Who acts:** Doctors · **What happens:** use, see, cut, listen, check · **To what, where:** tools, bones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world 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 (Doctors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.lesson:3
# text = Doctors use tools to see inside us without cutting: a stethoscope to listen to the heart and lungs, a thermometer to check for fever and X-rays to see bones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.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	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stethoscope	stethoscope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
33	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Doctors | tools |  |  |  | a stethoscope *obl*; a thermometer *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Doctors *not said here* | tools *not said here* |  |  |  | inside us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cut** | gerund | Doctors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Doctors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the heart and lungs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to heart=Theme |
| 5 | **check** | to-infinitive | Doctors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for fever and X rays | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for fever=Attribute |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | Doctors *not said here* | bones |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus |

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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): 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.

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