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title: Children's medicines have special doses, so you ask a grown-up befor… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics
description: Children's medicines have special doses, so you ask a grown-up before taking any. Who acts: medicines, you, Children. A sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 16

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Children's medicines have special doses, so you ask a grown-up before taking any.

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**Who acts:** medicines, you, Children · **What happens:** have, ask, take, medicine · **To what, where:** special doses, grown, any

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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, you, Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:16
# text = Children's medicines have special doses, so you ask a grown-up before taking any.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	doses	dose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
12	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- 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 | **have** | present | Children's medicines | special doses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | grown |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | you *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 4 | **medicine** |  | Children |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:16`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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