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title: Many adults take a tablet every day to keep a long-term condition, l… — Going to the doctor and the chemist · tree and pragmatics
description: Many adults take a tablet every day to keep a long-term condition, like high blood pressure, under control. Who acts: Many adults. 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 of every cla
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# Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 15

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Many adults take a tablet every day to keep a long-term condition, like high blood pressure, under control.

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**Who acts:** Many adults · **What happens:** take, keep · **To what, where:** tablet, term condition, control

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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 (Many adults), 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:15
# text = Many adults take a tablet every day to keep a long-term condition, like high blood pressure, under control.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Many adults | a tablet |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Many adults *not said here* | a term condition |  | control |  | like high blood pressure | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent condition=Theme under control=Location |

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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:15`.

**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 ×2. **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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