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title: Medicines and household chemicals help when they are used in the rig… — Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Medicines, right person. A sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary 
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# Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** Medicines, right person · **What happens:** help, use, become · **To what, where:** Medicines, right way, poisons, wrong body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday 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 (Medicines, right person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.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	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	poisons	poison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Medicines and household chemicals |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive | the right person | Medicines *= medicine* |  | the right way |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | present | Medicines *= medicine* | poisons |  |  |  | in the wrong body or the wrong amount *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in body=Result |

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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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**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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