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title: A smaller body is harmed by a smaller amount, so medicines and chemi… — Cleaning chemicals and safety at home · tree and pragmatics
description: A smaller body is harmed by a smaller amount, so medicines and chemicals that are fine for adults can badly hurt a child. Who acts: smaller amount, chemicals, medicines. A sentence of the lesson «Cleaning chemicals and safety at home» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Cleaning chemicals and safety at home, sentence 16

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A smaller body is harmed by a smaller amount, so medicines and chemicals that are fine for adults can badly hurt a child.

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**Who acts:** smaller amount, chemicals, medicines · **What happens:** harm, be, hurt · **To what, where:** smaller body, child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cleaning chemicals and safety at home» of the chemistry 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 (smaller amount, chemicals, medicines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:025-cleaning-chemicals-safety.lesson:16
# text = A smaller body is harmed by a smaller amount, so medicines and chemicals that are fine for adults can badly hurt a child.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 025-cleaning-chemicals-safety.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
12	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harm** | present · passive | a smaller amount | a smaller body |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | chemicals |  |  |  |  | for adults; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** | can | medicines and chemicals | a child |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient |

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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.

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**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:chemistry:025-cleaning-chemicals-safety.lesson:16`.

**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): 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/).

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