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title: Old or unwanted medicines should go back to the pharmacy, not in the… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Old or unwanted medicines should go back to the pharmacy, not in the bin or down the toilet, where they can harm people, animals or rivers. Who acts: Old medicines, medicines. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 15

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Old or unwanted medicines should go back to the pharmacy, not in the bin or down the toilet, where they can harm people, animals or rivers.

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**Who acts:** Old medicines, medicines · **What happens:** go back, harm · **To what, where:** bin, people

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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 (Old medicines, medicines), 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:15
# text = Old or unwanted medicines should go back to the pharmacy, not in the bin or down the toilet, where they can harm people, animals or rivers.
# 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): no change
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	unwanted	unwanted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pharmacy	pharmacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | should | Old medicines |  |  | the bin or the toilet |  | to the pharmacy *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to pharmacy=Result |
| 2 | **harm** | can | medicines *= medicine* | people and animals or rivers |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=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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**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:15`.

**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): no change. **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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