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title: A repeat prescription is for medicine someone takes regularly, so th… — Going to the doctor and the chemist · tree and pragmatics
description: A repeat prescription is for medicine someone takes regularly, so they do not need to see the doctor every time. Who acts: someone, problems. A sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 14

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A repeat prescription is for medicine someone takes regularly, so they do not need to see the doctor every time.

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**Who acts:** someone, problems · **What happens:** be, take, not need, see · **To what, where:** repeat prescription, medicine, doctor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life 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 (someone, problems), 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:14
# text = A repeat prescription is for medicine someone takes regularly, so they do not need to see the doctor every time.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	repeat	repeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	prescription	prescription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
8	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a repeat prescription |  |  |  | for medicine | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | someone | medicine *not said here* |  |  |  | regularly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | problems *= problem* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | problems *= problem* *not said here* | the doctor |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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