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title: Doctors usually suggest one of paracetamol or ibuprofen first, and s… — The right dose and never more than · tree and pragmatics
description: Doctors usually suggest one of paracetamol or ibuprofen first, and switching to the other only if the first hasn't helped. Who acts: Doctors, first. A sentence of the lesson «The right dose and never more than» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The right dose and never more than, sentence 12

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Doctors usually suggest one of paracetamol or ibuprofen first, and switching to the other only if the first hasn't helped.

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**Who acts:** Doctors, first · **What happens:** suggest, switch, not help · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The right dose and never more than» 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 (Doctors, first), 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:12
# text = Doctors usually suggest one of paracetamol or ibuprofen first, and switching to the other only if the first hasn't helped.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	paracetamol	paracetamol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ibuprofen	ibuprofen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	switching	switch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Doctors | one of paracetamol or ibuprofen |  |  |  | first, usually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 2 | **switch** | gerund | Doctors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the other *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to other=Result |
| 3 | **not** **help** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | the first |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.lesson:12`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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