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title: Liquid medicine is measured with a measuring syringe or spoon, becau… — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics
description: Liquid medicine is measured with a measuring syringe or spoon, because kitchen spoons are different sizes. Who acts: kitchen spoons. 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 8

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Liquid medicine is measured with a measuring syringe or spoon, because kitchen spoons are different sizes.

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**Who acts:** kitchen spoons · **What happens:** measure, be · **To what, where:** Liquid medicine, different sizes

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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 (kitchen spoons), 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:8
# text = Liquid medicine is measured with a measuring syringe or spoon, because kitchen spoons are different sizes.
# 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:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	measuring	measuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	syringe	syringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **measure** | present · passive |  | Liquid medicine |  |  |  | with a measuring syringe or spoon | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **is a** | present | kitchen spoons | different sizes |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:8`.

**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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