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title: Pharmacists can give advice and medicines for many minor illnesses,… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Pharmacists can give advice and medicines for many minor illnesses, and they send people to a doctor if something seems more serious. Who acts: Pharmacists, medicines, something. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 6

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Pharmacists can give advice and medicines for many minor illnesses, and they send people to a doctor if something seems more serious.

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**Who acts:** Pharmacists, medicines, something · **What happens:** give, send, seem · **To what, where:** advice, people, doctor

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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 (Pharmacists, medicines, something), 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:6
# text = Pharmacists can give advice and medicines for many minor illnesses, and they send people to a doctor if something seems more 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): no change
1	Pharmacists	pharmacist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | can | Pharmacists | advice and medicines for many minor illnesses |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | present | medicines *= medicine* | people |  | a doctor |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme to doctor=Destination |
| 3 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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:6`.

**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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