Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 8

Ultrasound uses sound waves to show a baby inside its mother, as for people, and elephants and big cats have been trained to stay still for scans in return for treats.

Who acts: Ultrasound, elephants · What happens: use, show, train, stay · To what, where: sound waves, baby, elephants, return

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 (Ultrasound, elephants), 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	Ultrasound	ultrasound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waves	compound
4	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 uses	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 uses	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 people	punct
13	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	15 people	case
14	for	for	ADP	_	13 as	fixed
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 trained	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 trained	cc
18	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 trained	nsubj:pass
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cats	cc
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cats	amod
21	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 elephants	conj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 trained	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 trained	aux:pass
24	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 uses	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stay	mark
26	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 trained	xcomp
27	still	still	ADV	_	26 stay	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 scans	case
29	scans	scan	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stay	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 return	case
31	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stay	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 treats	case
33	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 return	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Ultrasound	sound waves				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient
2	show	to-infinitive	Ultrasound not said here	a baby			inside Ultrasound's mother; as people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient
3	train	present · perfect · passive		elephants and big cats				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	stay	to-infinitive	elephants and big cats not said here		return for treats	still	for scans	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in return=Location

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:8.

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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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