--- title: A dose is the amount of medicine to take and how often. — Medicines, doctors and hospitals · tree and pragmatics description: A dose is the amount of medicine to take and how often. Who acts: dose. A sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Medicines, doctors and hospitals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/) / 5 # Medicines, doctors and hospitals, sentence 5 A dose is the amount of medicine to take and how often. **Who acts:** dose · **What happens:** be, take · **To what, where:** amount This is a sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world 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 (dose), 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:5 # text = A dose is the amount of medicine to take and how often. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dose dose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 9 conj _ _ 13 . . 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 dose | the amount | | | | of medicine | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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: [Medicines, doctors and hospitals, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/4/) - next →: [Medicines, doctors and hospitals, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/)