Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 15

Vets look at dung under a microscope for worm eggs and germs, and they can measure hormones in dung to tell whether an animal is stressed or pregnant without touching it.

Who acts: Vets, germs · What happens: look, measure, tell, stress, touch · To what, where: dung, hormones, animal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» of the biology 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 (Vets, germs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dung	case
4	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 microscope	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 microscope	det
7	microscope	microscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
9	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eggs	compound
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 germs	cc
12	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eggs	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 measure	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 measure	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 measure	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 measure	aux
17	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 look	conj
18	hormones	hormone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 measure	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 dung	case
20	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hormones	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 measure	advcl
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 stressed	mark
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 animal	det
25	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stressed	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stressed	aux:pass
27	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 tell	ccomp
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 pregnant	cc
29	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stressed	conj
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 touching	mark
31	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 stressed	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 touching	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	Vets		dung	under a microscope; for worm eggs and germs	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dung=Location for egg=Theme
2	measure	can	germs = germ	hormones	dung		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hormone=Value
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	germs = germ not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stress	present · passive		a animal			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
5	touch	gerund		dung			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

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.

Licence: CC 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:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:15.

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, R7-rel-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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