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title: A medicine is chosen for one person's body, age and illness, so chil… — Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: children, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday course of Mova's primar
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# Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** children, someone · **What happens:** choose, not take, grow, not call, medicine · **To what, where:** medicine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (children, someone), 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:1
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	else	else	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
22	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
36	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **choose** | present · passive |  | a medicine |  |  |  | for one person's body and age and illness | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for body=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **take** | infinitive | children | someone's medicine or a grown up's dose |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **call** | present · passive |  | medicine |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **medicine** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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