--- title: Example: before a new medicine is sold, it is tested on many volunte… — Medicines, doctors and hospitals · tree and pragmatics description: Example: before a new medicine is sold, it is tested on many volunteers and compared with a dummy pill to make sure that it really works and is safe. Who acts: medicine. 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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), 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:4 # text = Example: before a new medicine is sold, it is tested on many volunteers and compared with a dummy pill to make sure that it really works and is safe. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj:pass 2 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 3 before before SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 volunteers volunteer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 dummy dummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 pill pill NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl 24 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 really really ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | present · passive | | a new medicine | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **test** | present · passive | | medicine | | many volunteers | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **compare** | participle | | | | | | with a dummy pill | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with pill=Co-Patient | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | | | | | | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **work** | present | medicine | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | medicine *not said here* | | | | | safe *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: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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Medicines, doctors and hospitals, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/3/) - next →: [Medicines, doctors and hospitals, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/)