--- title: Pharmacy-only medicines are kept behind the counter because the phar… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics description: Pharmacy-only medicines are kept behind the counter because the pharmacist needs to ask a few questions first, not because they are poison. Who acts: pharmacist, medicines. 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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 (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:8 # text = Pharmacy-only medicines are kept behind the counter because the pharmacist needs to ask a few questions first, not because they are poison. # 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 Pharmacy pharmacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 counter counter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pharmacist pharmacist NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present · passive | | Pharmacy only medicines | | the counter | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme behind counter=Location | | 2 | **need** | present | the pharmacist | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the pharmacist *not said here* | a few questions | | | | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | medicines *= medicine* | poison | | | | | 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:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [At the pharmacy, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/7/) - next →: [At the pharmacy, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/)