At the pharmacy, sentence 8

Pharmacy-only medicines are kept behind the counter because the pharmacist needs to ask a few questions first, not because they are poison.

Who acts: pharmacist, medicines · What happens: keep, need, ask, not be · To what, where: Pharmacy only medicines, counter, few questions, poison

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 (pharmacist, medicines), 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	Pharmacy	pharmacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 medicines	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Pharmacy	punct
3	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 medicines	amod
4	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	aux:pass
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 counter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 counter	det
9	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 needs	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pharmacist	det
12	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ask	mark
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 needs	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 questions	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 questions	amod
18	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ask	obj
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 ask	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 poison	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 poison	advmod
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 poison	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 poison	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 poison	cop
25	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		Pharmacy only medicines	the counter		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme behind counter=Location
2	need	present	the pharmacist				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	the pharmacist not said here	a few questions		first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
4	not is a	present	medicines = medicine	poison			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, 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:8.

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.

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