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title: Medicine is never candy: children's medicines have special doses, ad… — Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen met… · tree and pragmatics
description: Medicine is never candy: children's medicines have special doses, adult medicines can harm children, and a grown-up must always give them. Who acts: Medicine, medicines, adult medicines, grown up. A sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, 
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# Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks, sentence 4

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Medicine is never candy: children's medicines have special doses, adult medicines can harm children, and a grown-up must always give them.

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**Who acts:** Medicine, medicines, adult medicines, grown up, children · **What happens:** not be, have, harm, give, medicine · **To what, where:** candy, 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 (Medicine, medicines, adult medicines, grown up), 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:4
# text = Medicine is never candy: children's medicines have special doses, adult medicines can harm children, and a grown-up must always give them.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Medicine	Medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	candy	candy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
10	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	doses	dose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	grown	grown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Medicine | candy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | children's medicines | special doses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Patient |
| 3 | **harm** | can | adult medicines | children |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
| 4 | **give** | must | a grown up | children *= child* |  |  |  | always *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 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:4`.

**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): 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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