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title: For small problems, like a mild rash or a sore throat, your grown-up… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: For small problems, like a mild rash or a sore throat, your grown-up can often go straight to the pharmacy instead of waiting for a doctor, and the pharmacist sends you on if it looks serious. Who acts: grown, pharmacist. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's pr
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 2

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For small problems, like a mild rash or a sore throat, your grown-up can often go straight to the pharmacy instead of waiting for a doctor, and the pharmacist sends you on if it looks serious.

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**Who acts:** grown, pharmacist · **What happens:** go, wait, send on, look · **To what, where:** pharmacy, you

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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 (grown, pharmacist), 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:2
# text = For small problems, like a mild rash or a sore throat, your grown-up can often go straight to the pharmacy instead of waiting for a doctor, and the pharmacist sends you on if it looks serious.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:poss
15	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pharmacy	pharmacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADV	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
41	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **go** | can | grown |  |  | the pharmacy |  | for small problems like a mild rash or a sore throat; often, straight *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pharmacy=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | grown *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a doctor | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send on** | present | the pharmacist | you |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | pharmacist |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:2`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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