--- title: A prescription is a doctor's order for a particular medicine at a pa… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics description: A prescription is a doctor's order for a particular medicine at a particular dose, and the pharmacist prepares it and checks it is right. Who acts: prescription, pharmacist. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prescription, 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:4 # text = A prescription is a doctor's order for a particular medicine at a particular dose, and the pharmacist prepares it and checks it is right. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prescription prescription NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dose dose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 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 prepares prepare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 ccomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a prescription | a doctor's order | | a particular dose | | for a particular medicine | tree rules | | 2 | **prepare** | present | the pharmacist | doctor | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **check** | present | the pharmacist *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | pharmacist | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:4`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [At the pharmacy, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/3/) - next →: [At the pharmacy, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/)