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title: Grandma's pill box with the days of the week sits by the kettle, and… — Going to the doctor and the chemist · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandma's pill box with the days of the week sits by the kettle, and the medicine cupboard is up high where little hands can't reach. Who acts: pill box, medicine cupboard, little hands. A sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school 
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# Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 4

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Grandma's pill box with the days of the week sits by the kettle, and the medicine cupboard is up high where little hands can't reach.

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**Who acts:** pill box, medicine cupboard, little hands · **What happens:** sit, be, not reach

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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, medicine cupboard, little hands), 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:4
# text = Grandma's pill box with the days of the week sits by the kettle, and the medicine cupboard is up high where little hands can't reach.
# 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	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	pill	pill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **sit** | present | Grandma's pill box with the days of the week |  |  |  |  | by the kettle | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by kettle=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the medicine cupboard |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **reach** | can | little hands |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:4`.

**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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