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title: A pharmacist is an expert in medicines who has studied for years: in… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: A pharmacist is an expert in medicines who has studied for years: in the UK it takes a four-year university degree and a year of training on the job. Who acts: pharmacist, medicines, it. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 0

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A pharmacist is an expert in medicines who has studied for years: in the UK it takes a four-year university degree and a year of training on the job.

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**Who acts:** pharmacist, medicines, it · **What happens:** be, study, take · **To what, where:** expert, medicines, year university degree, UK

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This is a sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» 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 (pharmacist, medicines, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:020-at-the-pharmacy.lesson:0
# text = A pharmacist is an expert in medicines who has studied for years: in the UK it takes a four-year university degree and a year of training on the job.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 020-at-the-pharmacy.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a pharmacist | a expert |  | medicines |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **study** | present · perfect | medicines |  |  |  | year |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | present | it | a year university degree and a year of training on the job |  | the UK |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent degree=Value in uk=Location |

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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:020-at-the-pharmacy.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): R5-strong ×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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