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title: If you swallow medicine or something poisonous by mistake, tell an a… — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics
description: If you swallow medicine or something poisonous by mistake, tell an adult immediately so they can call poison control or emergency help. Who acts: you, children. A sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 13

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If you swallow medicine or something poisonous by mistake, tell an adult immediately so they can call poison control or emergency help.

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**Who acts:** you, children · **What happens:** swallow, tell, call · **To what, where:** medicine, adult, poison control · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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 (you, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:13
# text = If you swallow medicine or something poisonous by mistake, tell an adult immediately so they can call poison control or emergency help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 082-getting-better-and-medicines.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 ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	conj	_	_
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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* | present | you | medicine |  |  |  | by mistake | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  | immediately *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 3 | **call** | can | children *= child* | poison control or emergency and help |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent control=Recipient |

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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:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2. **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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