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title: Children should take medicine only from a grown-up; children's medic… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Children should take medicine only from a grown-up; children's medicines have special doses, and adult medicines can harm children. Who acts: Children, medicines, adult medicines. A sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary
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# Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 15

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Children should take medicine only from a grown-up; children's medicines have special doses, and adult medicines can harm children.

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**Who acts:** Children, medicines, adult medicines · **What happens:** take, grow up, have, harm, medicine · **To what, where:** medicine, special doses, children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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 (Children, medicines, adult medicines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:15
# text = Children should take medicine only from a grown-up; children's medicines have special doses, and adult medicines can harm children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	obl	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	doses	dose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | should | Children | medicine |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | children's medicines | special doses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Patient |
| 4 | **harm** | can | adult medicines | children |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
| 5 | **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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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