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title: Medicines are a leading cause of poisoning in young children, so all… — First aid, medicine and the sun · tree and pragmatics
description: Medicines are a leading cause of poisoning in young children, so all pills must be kept up and away and given only by an adult. Who acts: Medicines. A sentence of the lesson «First aid, medicine and the sun» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# First aid, medicine and the sun, sentence 20

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Medicines are a leading cause of poisoning in young children, so all pills must be kept up and away and given only by an adult.

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**Who acts:** Medicines · **What happens:** lead, be, keep up, give · **To what, where:** leading cause, pills

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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 (Medicines), 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:20
# text = Medicines are a leading cause of poisoning in young children, so all pills must be kept up and away and given only by an adult.
# 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 ×1
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	poisoning	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Medicines | a leading cause |  |  |  | of poisoning; in young children | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep up** | must · passive |  | all pills |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a adult | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:20`.

**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. **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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