--- title: Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Medicines and household chemicals help when they are used in the right way by the right person, but in the wrong body or the wrong --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals # Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals Lesson 114 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/0/) — Medicines and household chemicals help when they are used in the right way by the right person, but in the wrong body or the wrong amount they become poisons. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/1/) — A medicine is chosen for one person's body, age and illness, so children never take someone else's medicine or a grown-up's dose, and medicine is never called sweets. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/2/) — Chemicals stay safe when they stay in their own labelled bottles, locked or up high, and warning symbols on the label tell you how they can hurt you: corrosive, toxic, flammable or harmful. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/3/) — For example, a girl in Arizona finds a water bottle of blue liquid in the garage; she does not taste it, because people sometimes keep chemicals in old drink bottles, and she shows her dad. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/4/) — Thin plastic bags are dangerous too: they cling to a baby's face and can stop it breathing, so they are knotted and kept high or thrown away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/5/) — Plastic bags are tied in a knot and kept up high so a small child cannot pull one over the head. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/6/) — Thin dry-cleaning bags (the clear plastic covers on clothes from the dry cleaner's) should be thrown away because the film clings to a baby's face. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/7/) — Medicine should always be called medicine, not candy or sweets, so children do not look for more. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/8/) — You should never take someone else's medicine, because it was chosen for their body and illness. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/9/) — If a child swallows something from the medicine cabinet, a grown-up must be told at once to call poison help or the emergency number. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/10/) — Cleaning products are kept in their original bottles, locked away or up high. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/11/) — Warning symbols on bottles show if a product is corrosive, toxic, flammable or harmful. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/12/) — Flammable means it catches fire easily, shown by a flame symbol; corrosive means it can burn skin and eat away surfaces; toxic means poisonous. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/13/) — You should never drink from a bottle if you are not sure what is inside. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/14/) — Chemical spray in the eyes is rinsed out with clean running water for several minutes, and a grown-up is told. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/15/) — Children ask a grown-up before taking any medicine, because children's medicines have special doses. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/16/) — Liquid nicotine in e-cigarette refills is poisonous even in small amounts. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/17/) — A toddler in Ohio chewed a bright laundry pod he thought was a sweet; he was sick and struggled to breathe, and he was taken to hospital. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/18/) — A boy in Leeds drank from a juice bottle in the shed that held weedkiller; he was very ill and his throat was burnt. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/19/) — Many children are poisoned each year by medicines, cleaning products and chemicals they find at home. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/20/) — Chemicals should stay in their own bottles, because a drink bottle with poison in it looks safe. - ← previous: [Babies, button batteries and magnets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/) - next →: [Fire, candles and garage and garden tools](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)