--- title: A medicine is a substance that helps the body fight an illness, ease… — Medicines, doctors and hospitals · tree and pragmatics description: A medicine is a substance that helps the body fight an illness, eases pain or prevents a disease; the right amount, called the dose, helps, but too much can be dangerous. Who acts: medicine, substance, body, right amount. 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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 (medicine, substance, body, right amount), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.lesson:0 # text = A medicine is a substance that helps the body fight an illness, eases pain or prevents a disease; the right amount, called the dose, helps, but too much can be dangerous. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 eases ease VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 prevents prevent VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 25 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 dose dose NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a medicine | a substance | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | a substance | the body | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **fight** | infinitive | the body *not said here* | a illness | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Co-Agent | | 4 | **ease** | present | a substance *not said here* | pain | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | | 5 | **prevent** | present | a substance *not said here* | a disease | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer disease=Theme | | 6 | **call** | participle | the right amount *not said here* | the dose | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dose=Recipient | | 7 | **help** | present | the right amount | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | can | much | | | | | dangerous *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:world:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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: [Lungs, air and keeping fit, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/93-lungs-air-keeping-fit/19/) - next →: [Medicines, doctors and hospitals, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/)