--- title: Medicine is chosen by adults and doctors: aspirin is not given to ch… — First aid, medicine and the sun · tree and pragmatics description: Medicine is chosen by adults and doctors: aspirin is not given to children under 16 unless a doctor says so, because it can cause a rare but serious illness called Reye's syndrome. Who acts: adults, doctor, aspirin, rare illness. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adults, doctor, aspirin, rare illness), 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:2 # text = Medicine is chosen by adults and doctors: aspirin is not given to children under 16 unless a doctor says so, because it can cause a rare but serious illness called Reye's syndrome. # 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): no change 1 Medicine Medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:agent _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 9 aspirin aspirin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 17 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 32 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 Reye Reye PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 syndrome syndrome NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | present · passive | adults and doctors | Medicine | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **not** **give** | present · passive | | aspirin | children under 16 | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to child=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a doctor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cause** | can | aspirin | a rare illness | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition illness=Patient | | 5 | **call** | participle | a rare illness *not said here* | Reye's syndrome | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:2`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [First aid, medicine and the sun, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun/1/) - next →: [First aid, medicine and the sun, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun/)