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title: Some medicines are spaced through the day to keep a steady level in… — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics
description: Some medicines are spaced through the day to keep a steady level in the blood; taking all the doses at once is dangerous. A sentence of the lesson «How medicines work» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How medicines work, sentence 10

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Some medicines are spaced through the day to keep a steady level in the blood; taking all the doses at once is dangerous.

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**What happens:** space, keep, take, be · **To what, where:** medicines, steady level, blood, doses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How medicines work» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:10
# text = Some medicines are spaced through the day to keep a steady level in the blood; taking all the doses at once is dangerous.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 017-how-medicines-work.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	spaced	space	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	doses	dose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **space** | present · passive |  | some medicines |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | a steady level |  | the blood |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent level=Theme in blood=Location |
| 3 | **take** | gerund |  | all doses |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | dangerous, once *property* | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-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.

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