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title: Ibuprofen should not be given for chickenpox unless a doctor says so… — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and frie… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ibuprofen should not be given for chickenpox unless a doctor says so, because it can sometimes lead to serious skin infections. Who acts: doctor. A sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 6

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Ibuprofen should not be given for chickenpox unless a doctor says so, because it can sometimes lead to serious skin infections.

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**Who acts:** doctor · **What happens:** not give, say, lead · **To what, where:** Ibuprofen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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 (doctor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.lesson:6
# text = Ibuprofen should not be given for chickenpox unless a doctor says so, because it can sometimes lead to serious skin infections.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ibuprofen	ibuprofen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	infections	infection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **give** | should · passive |  | Ibuprofen |  |  |  | for chickenpox | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for chickenpox=Asset |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | can | doctor |  |  |  |  | to serious skin infections; sometimes *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to infection=Patient |

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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): R8-pos-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/).

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