The right dose and never more than, sentence 15
Out-of-date medicines can lose strength or change; pharmacies take old medicines back, and flushing them harms rivers and wildlife.
Who acts: Out date medicines, pharmacies, flushing · What happens: lose, take back, flush, harm · To what, where: strength, old medicines, pharmacies, rivers
This is a sentence of the lesson «The right dose and never more than» 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 (Out date medicines, pharmacies, flushing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out | out | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 medicines | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Out | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 date | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 of | punct |
| 5 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 medicines | compound |
| 6 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lose | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 lose | aux |
| 8 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lose | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 change | cc |
| 11 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strength | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 13 | pharmacies | pharmacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 take | nsubj |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lose | parataxis |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 medicines | amod |
| 16 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 take | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 harms | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 harms | cc |
| 20 | flushing | flush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 harms | csubj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flushing | obj |
| 22 | harms | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | conj |
| 23 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 harms | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wildlife | cc |
| 25 | wildlife | wildlife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rivers | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | can | Out date medicines | strength or change | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take back | present | pharmacies | old medicines | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flush | gerund | pharmacies = pharmacy | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | |||||
| 4 | harm | present | flushing | rivers and wildlife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus river=Experiencer |
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, 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:018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.lesson:15.
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. 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.
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