The vet, sentence 7
Vets often take a pet's temperature with a thermometer under the tail, because it gives an accurate reading.
Who acts: Vets, vet · What happens: take, give · To what, where: temperature, accurate reading
This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» 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, vet), 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 | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pet | det |
| 5 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 temperature | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 pet | case |
| 7 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 thermometer | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thermometer | det |
| 10 | thermometer | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 tail | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tail | det |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thermometer | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gives | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 gives | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gives | nsubj |
| 17 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | advcl |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 reading | det |
| 19 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reading | amod |
| 20 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Vets | a pet's temperature | with a thermometer under the tail; often property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | present | vet | a accurate reading | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=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:227-the-vet.lesson:7.
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. 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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