--- title: Medicines and cleaning products — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Medicines and cleaning products», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A medicine is a chemical that helps the body when the right amount is taken. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Medicines and cleaning products # Medicines and cleaning products Lesson 33 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/0/) — A medicine is a chemical that helps the body when the right amount is taken. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/1/) — Too much of it, or the wrong one, can be a poison. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/3/) — Medicine is never a sweet, even when it tastes like one. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/4/) — Cleaning products are strong chemicals made to kill germs and dissolve dirt. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/6/) — For example, bleach mixed with some other cleaners makes a poisonous gas. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/7/) — That is why cleaners are never mixed, and why you never sniff or taste a bottle to find out what is inside. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/8/) — If someone may have swallowed something harmful, an adult calls a poison help line at once, such as 1-800-222-1222 in the USA or 13 11 26 in Australia. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/10/) — A toddler in Texas found her grandma's pills in a handbag and thought they were sweets; she swallowed several and had to be rushed to hospital. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/11/) — A little boy in Liverpool bit into a laundry detergent pod that looked like a toy; it burst in his mouth and he had to be treated in hospital for burns and breathing problems. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/14/) — Some medicines look and taste like sweets, but they are not sweets. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/15/) — You should never taste, sniff or drink anything from an unknown bottle or container. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/16/) — Cleaning products can burn the mouth, throat, skin and eyes. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/17/) — Different cleaning products must never be mixed, because some mixtures give off poisonous gas. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/18/) — Chemicals should always stay in their own labelled bottles, never in drink bottles or cups. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/19/) — Many medicine and cleaner bottles have special caps that are hard to open, to stop young children getting into them. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/20/) — In the USA, the Poison Help line is 1-800-222-1222; in Australia, the Poisons Information Centre is 13 11 26. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/21/) — If someone has swallowed a poison and has trouble breathing or will not wake up, you call the emergency number. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/22/) — You should not try to make someone vomit after swallowing a poison unless an expert tells you to, because a strong chemical can burn the throat again on the way back up. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/23/) — Small round button batteries are very dangerous if swallowed and need a doctor straight away. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/24/) — Laundry pods and dishwasher tablets are poisonous and must be kept away from small children. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/25/) — Many children are poisoned every year by medicines or cleaning products they found at home. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/26/) — A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat in about two hours, so it is an emergency. - ← previous: [Electricity at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/) - next →: [Fire at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)