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title: Liquid medicine is easier for children to swallow, and the dose can… — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics
description: Liquid medicine is easier for children to swallow, and the dose can be measured exactly. Who acts: Liquid medicine. 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 11

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Liquid medicine is easier for children to swallow, and the dose can be measured exactly.

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**Who acts:** Liquid medicine · **What happens:** be, swallow, measure · **To what, where:** dose

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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: who acts (Liquid medicine), 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:11
# text = Liquid medicine is easier for children to swallow, and the dose can be measured exactly.
# 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): no change
1	Liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Liquid medicine |  |  |  |  | for children; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | Liquid medicine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **measure** | can · passive |  | the dose |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |

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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:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:11`.

**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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