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title: A girl in Brisbane thought two of her mum's headache tablets would w… — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Brisbane thought two of her mum's headache tablets would work faster than one of hers; she got very ill and had to be taken to hospital. Who acts: girl, two. A sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 16

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A girl in Brisbane thought two of her mum's headache tablets would work faster than one of hers; she got very ill and had to be taken to hospital.

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**Who acts:** girl, two · **What happens:** think, work, get, have, take · **To what, where:** one · **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 (girl, two), 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:16
# text = A girl in Brisbane thought two of her mum's headache tablets would work faster than one of hers; she got very ill and had to be taken to hospital.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
15	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | a girl in Brisbane |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | would | two of girl's mum's headache tablets | one of girl |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive · passive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to hospital *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: to hospital=Result |

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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:16`.

**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, R8-pos-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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