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title: Only a grown-up should give medicine; children's medicines have spec… — Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen met… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only a grown-up should give medicine; children's medicines have special doses, and adult medicines can harm children. Who acts: medicines, adult medicines, children. A sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and f
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# Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks, sentence 17

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Only a grown-up should give medicine; children's medicines have special doses, and adult medicines can harm children.

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

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» 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, adult medicines, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.lesson:17
# text = Only a grown-up should give medicine; children's medicines have special doses, and adult medicines can harm children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	nsubj	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	doses	dose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | should |  | medicine |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=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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**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:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.lesson:17`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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