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title: A pill box with the days of the week helps someone see whether today… — Going to the doctor and the chemist · tree and pragmatics
description: A pill box with the days of the week helps someone see whether today's tablets have been taken and avoid a double dose. Who acts: pill box, someone. 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 pragm
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# Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 21

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A pill box with the days of the week helps someone see whether today's tablets have been taken and avoid a double dose.

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**Who acts:** pill box, someone · **What happens:** help, see, take, avoid · **To what, where:** someone, tablets, double dose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pill box, someone), 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:21
# text = A pill box with the days of the week helps someone see whether today's tablets have been taken and avoid a double dose.
# 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	pill	pill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **help** | present | a pill box with the days of the week | someone |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | today's tablets |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **avoid** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | a double dose |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent dose=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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**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.

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