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title: Calling it sweets makes small children look for more of it, and adul… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Calling it sweets makes small children look for more of it, and adult medicines can harm children. Who acts: Calling, small children, adult medicines. A sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 4

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Calling it sweets makes small children look for more of it, and adult medicines can harm children.

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**Who acts:** Calling, small children, adult medicines · **What happens:** call, make, look, harm · **To what, where:** Medicine, more, 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 (Calling, small children, 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:4
# text = Calling it sweets makes small children look for more of it, 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	xcomp	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **call** | gerund |  | Medicine |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Calling |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | small children | more |  |  |  | for Medicine | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 4 | **harm** | can | adult medicines | children |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |

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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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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