The vet Lesson 227 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 A vet is a doctor for animals, but unlike a children's doctor, a vet must know about dogs, cats, hamsters, horses, cows and snakes, all with different bodies, and none of the patients can say where it hurts. 1 So a vet looks, listens and measures: the stethoscope tells about the heart and lungs, the thermometer about fever, the scales about weight, and an X-ray shows what is inside, like the sock a greedy dog swallowed. 2 At the yearly check-up a dog gets an injection, a vaccine that teaches its body to fight dangerous illnesses before it ever meets them. 3 After an operation a cat may come home wearing a big cone round its neck, which looks funny but stops it licking open its stitches. 5 Vaccines given by injection protect pets by helping their bodies learn to fight illnesses. 6 Vets use a stethoscope, just like doctors, to listen to an animal's heart and lungs. 7 Vets often take a pet's temperature with a thermometer under the tail, because it gives an accurate reading. 8 Weight tells a lot about health; losing weight can be the first sign of illness, so even a hamster is weighed on small scales. 9 Horses' teeth keep growing and wearing down, and sharp edges can make eating painful, so vets or horse dentists file them smooth with special tools. 10 Dogs sometimes swallow odd things like socks and toys; an X-ray can show them, and some objects block the gut and need an operation. 11 A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its stitches, because licking can open the wound. 12 A brown crust on a pet's teeth is tartar; food and germs build up on teeth, make the gums sore and can make teeth fall out. 13 Farm vets visit farms to check herds of cows, sheep and pigs. 14 When a pet is very old or ill and suffering, a vet can help it die peacefully; this is called putting to sleep. 15 Vets study for about five years or more at university and learn about many different kinds of animal. 16 A vet checks a pet's eyes, ears, teeth, skin and coat during a check-up, because many illnesses show there first. ← previous Kindness to wild animalsnext → Cartoon pets and animal myths put right↑ back to Biology This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/