--- title: Regulators, official checkers, test a medicine before doctors can pr… — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics description: Regulators, official checkers, test a medicine before doctors can prescribe (order) it, and side effects (unwanted effects) are watched for after it goes on sale, because rare ones only show up when many people use it. Who acts: Regulators, doctors, order, rare ones. A sentence of the lesson «How me --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [How medicines work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/) / 15 # How medicines work, sentence 15 Regulators, official checkers, test a medicine before doctors can prescribe (order) it, and side effects (unwanted effects) are watched for after it goes on sale, because rare ones only show up when many people use it. **Who acts:** Regulators, doctors, order, rare ones, many people · **What happens:** test, prescribe, watch, go, show up, use · **To what, where:** medicine, order, side effects, sale 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 (Regulators, doctors, order, rare ones), 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:15 # text = Regulators, official checkers, test a medicine before doctors can prescribe (order) it, and side effects (unwanted effects) are watched for after it goes on sale, because rare ones only show up when many people use it. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Regulators regulator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 checkers checker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 test test VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 prescribe prescribe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 effects effect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 22 unwanted unwanted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 effects effect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 after after SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:ccomp 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 41 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:conj 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **test** | present | Regulators and official checkers | a medicine | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | | 2 | **prescribe** | can | doctors | order | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **watch** | present · passive | | side effects | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **go** | present | order | | | sale | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sale=Location | | 5 | **show up** | present | rare ones | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **use** | present | many people | order | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [How medicines work, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/14/) - next →: [How medicines work, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/)