--- title: Every medicine has a right dose: too little does nothing, too much c… — The right dose and never more than · tree and pragmatics description: Every medicine has a right dose: too little does nothing, too much can harm, and "never more than four doses in 24 hours" on the box is a real safety line. Who acts: medicine, little, much, four doses. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (medicine, little, much, four doses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.lesson:0 # text = Every medicine has a right dose: too little does nothing, too much can harm, and "never more than four doses in 24 hours" on the box is a real safety line. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 dose dose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod 10 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 13 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 23 advmod _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 doses dose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obl 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | every medicine | a right dose | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Patient | | 2 | **do** | present | little | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 3 | **harm** | can | much | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | four doses in 24 hours on the box | a real safety line | | | | | tree rules | 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:018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/17/) - next →: [The right dose and never more than, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than/)