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title: In England prescriptions are free for children under 16, and in Scot… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: In England prescriptions are free for children under 16, and in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland they are free for everyone. Who acts: prescriptions, medicines. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 9

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In England prescriptions are free for children under 16, and in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland they are free for everyone.

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**Who acts:** prescriptions, medicines · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** England, Scotland

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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 (prescriptions, 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:9
# text = In England prescriptions are free for children under 16, and in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland they are free for everyone.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	prescriptions	prescription	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	_	18	flat	_	_
18	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | prescriptions |  |  | England |  | for children under 16; free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | medicines *= medicine* |  |  | Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland |  | for everyone; free *property* | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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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