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title: Out-of-date medicines can lose strength or change; pharmacies take o… — The right dose and never more than · tree and pragmatics
description: Out-of-date medicines can lose strength or change; pharmacies take old medicines back, and flushing them harms rivers and wildlife. Who acts: Out date medicines, pharmacies, flushing. A sentence of the lesson «The right dose and never more than» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with i
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# The right dose and never more than, sentence 15

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Out-of-date medicines can lose strength or change; pharmacies take old medicines back, and flushing them harms rivers and wildlife.

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**Who acts:** Out date medicines, pharmacies, flushing · **What happens:** lose, take back, flush, harm · **To what, where:** strength, old medicines, pharmacies, rivers

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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 (Out date medicines, pharmacies, flushing), 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:15
# text = Out-of-date medicines can lose strength or change; pharmacies take old medicines back, and flushing them harms rivers and wildlife.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Out	out	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	pharmacies	pharmacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	flushing	flush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	harms	harm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **lose** | can | Out date medicines | strength or change |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take back** | present | pharmacies | old medicines |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
| 3 | **flush** | gerund |  | pharmacies *= pharmacy* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 4 | **harm** | present | flushing | rivers and wildlife |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus river=Experiencer |

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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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**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): R6-punct-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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