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title: When a doctor writes a prescription, an order for one medicine at on… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: When a doctor writes a prescription, an order for one medicine at one dose, the pharmacist checks the dose, your age, your allergies and your other medicines before handing it over. Who acts: doctor, pharmacist, your. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's primar
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 1

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When a doctor writes a prescription, an order for one medicine at one dose, the pharmacist checks the dose, your age, your allergies and your other medicines before handing it over.

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**Who acts:** doctor, pharmacist, your · **What happens:** write, check, hand over, medicine · **To what, where:** prescription, one dose, dose, pharmacist

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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 (doctor, pharmacist, your), 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:1
# text = When a doctor writes a prescription, an order for one medicine at one dose, the pharmacist checks the dose, your age, your allergies and your other medicines before handing it over.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prescription	prescription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	allergies	allergy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
32	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | a doctor | a prescription |  | one dose |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prescription=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | present | the pharmacist | the dose and your age and your other medicines |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Theme |
| 3 | **hand over** | gerund | the pharmacist *not said here* | pharmacist |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **medicine** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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:020-at-the-pharmacy.lesson:1`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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