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title: Some medicines are not licensed (approved) for younger children, for… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Some medicines are not licensed (approved) for younger children, for example most cough and cold medicines are not for children under 6 in the UK, so pharmacists check the age on the packet. Who acts: most cough medicines, pharmacists. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine cours
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 10

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Some medicines are not licensed (approved) for younger children, for example most cough and cold medicines are not for children under 6 in the UK, so pharmacists check the age on the packet.

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**Who acts:** most cough medicines, pharmacists · **What happens:** not license, approve, not be, check · **To what, where:** medicines, 6, age, packet

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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 (most cough medicines, pharmacists), 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:10
# text = Some medicines are not licensed (approved) for younger children, for example most cough and cold medicines are not for children under 6 in the UK, so pharmacists check the age on the packet.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	licensed	license	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
16	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	pharmacists	pharmacist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	packet	packet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **not** **license** | present · passive |  | some medicines |  |  |  | for younger children | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **approve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | most cough medicines |  |  | 6 in the UK |  | for children | tree rules |
| 4 | **check** | present | pharmacists | the age |  | the packet |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |

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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:10`.

**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): R8-pos-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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