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title: Aspirin should not be given to children under 16 unless a doctor say… — First aid, medicine and the sun · tree and pragmatics
description: Aspirin should not be given to children under 16 unless a doctor says, because it can cause Reye's syndrome. Who acts: doctor, aspirin. 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 of every clau
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# First aid, medicine and the sun, sentence 6

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Aspirin should not be given to children under 16 unless a doctor says, because it can cause Reye's syndrome.

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**Who acts:** doctor, aspirin · **What happens:** not give, say, cause · **To what, where:** Aspirin, children, syndrome · **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 (doctor, aspirin), 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:6
# text = Aspirin should not be given to children under 16 unless a doctor says, because it can cause 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	Aspirin	aspirin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	Reye	Reye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	syndrome	syndrome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **not** **give** | should · passive |  | Aspirin | children under 16 |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to child=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cause** | can | aspirin | Reye's syndrome |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition syndrome=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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**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/).

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