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title: Think of the pharmacist as the last safety net: the doctor chose the… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of the pharmacist as the last safety net: the doctor chose the medicine, and the pharmacist catches the mistakes before they reach your mouth. Who acts: you, doctor, pharmacist, medicines. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 3

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Think of the pharmacist as the last safety net: the doctor chose the medicine, and the pharmacist catches the mistakes before they reach your mouth.

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**Who acts:** you, doctor, pharmacist, medicines · **What happens:** think, choose, catch, reach · **To what, where:** medicine, mistakes, mouth

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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 (you, doctor, pharmacist, 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:3
# text = Think of the pharmacist as the last safety net: the doctor chose the medicine, and the pharmacist catches the mistakes before they reach your mouth.
# 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	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the pharmacist; as the last safety net | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choose** | past | the doctor | the medicine |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | present | the pharmacist | the mistakes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | present | medicines *= medicine* | your mouth |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mouth=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:3`.

**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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