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title: If a child swallows something from the medicine cabinet, a grown-up… — Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: child. A sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals, sentence 9

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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.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** swallow, tell, call · **To what, where:** something, medicine cabinet, grown, poison help · **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 (child), 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:9
# text = 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.
# 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 ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj:pass
12	grown	grown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a child | something |  | the medicine cabinet |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must · passive |  | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **call** | to-infinitive |  | poison help or the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient |

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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:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.lesson:9`.

**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 ×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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