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title: If a child may have swallowed medicine or a chemical, get an adult a… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a child may have swallowed medicine or a chemical, get an adult and call the emergency number at once; do not wait to see, and do not try to make them sick. Who acts: child, you. A sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» of the everyday course of Mova's prima
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# Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 24

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If a child may have swallowed medicine or a chemical, get an adult and call the emergency number at once; do not wait to see, and do not try to make them sick.

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**Who acts:** child, you · **What happens:** swallow, get, call, not wait, see, not try · **To what, where:** medicine, adult, emergency number, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (child, you), 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:24
# text = If a child may have swallowed medicine or a chemical, get an adult and call the emergency number at once; do not wait to see, and do not try to make them sick.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chemical	chemical	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **swallow** *a condition, not said to happen* | may · perfect | a child | medicine or a chemical |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | a adult |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent number=Theme at once=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **wait** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **try** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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.

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