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title: A toddler in the USA found his grandmother's pills in her handbag an… — First aid, medicine and the sun · tree and pragmatics
description: A toddler in the USA found his grandmother's pills in her handbag and swallowed some thinking they were sweets; he was rushed to hospital and had to stay overnight. Who acts: toddler, pills. A sentence of the lesson «First aid, medicine and the sun» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi
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# First aid, medicine and the sun, sentence 18

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A toddler in the USA found his grandmother's pills in her handbag and swallowed some thinking they were sweets; he was rushed to hospital and had to stay overnight.

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**Who acts:** toddler, pills · **What happens:** find, swallow, think, be, rush, have · **To what, where:** pills, handbag, some, sweets, toddler, hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «First aid, medicine and the sun» 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 (toddler, pills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun.lesson:18
# text = A toddler in the USA found his grandmother's pills in her handbag and swallowed some thinking they were sweets; he was rushed to hospital and had to stay overnight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	handbag	handbag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **find** | past | a toddler in the USA | toddler's grandmother's pills |  | skin's handbag |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Topic |
| 2 | **swallow** | past | a toddler in the USA *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | a toddler in the USA *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | pills *= pill* | sweets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rush** | past · passive |  | toddler |  | hospital |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to hospital=Trajectory |
| 6 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun.lesson:18`.

**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, 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.

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