--- title: A prescription is the doctor's written permission for a medicine tha… — Going to the doctor and the chemist · tree and pragmatics description: A prescription is the doctor's written permission for a medicine that cannot be bought off the shelf; a pharmacist hands it over. Who acts: prescription, pharmacist. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prescription, pharmacist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson:12 # text = A prescription is the doctor's written permission for a medicine that cannot be bought off the shelf; a pharmacist hands it over. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prescription prescription NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 bought buy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 off off ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pharmacist pharmacist NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hands hand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 over over ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a prescription | the doctor's written permission | | | | for a medicine | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **buy off** | can · passive | | a medicine | | | | off the shelf | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary shelf=Theme | | 4 | **hand over** | present | a pharmacist | prescription | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson:12`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Going to the doctor and the chemist, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/11/) - next →: [Going to the doctor and the chemist, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/)