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title: Taking more of a medicine than the dose on the label can poison you,… — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking more of a medicine than the dose on the label can poison you, even with common medicines like paracetamol. Who acts: Taking. A sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 17

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Taking more of a medicine than the dose on the label can poison you, even with common medicines like paracetamol.

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**Who acts:** Taking · **What happens:** take, poison · **To what, where:** more, you

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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 (Taking), 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:17
# text = Taking more of a medicine than the dose on the label can poison you, even with common medicines like paracetamol.
# 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 ×1
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	1	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	poison	poison	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	paracetamol	paracetamol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **take** | gerund |  | more |  |  |  | than the dose on the label | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument more=Theme medicine=Destination |
| 2 | **poison** | can | Taking | you |  |  |  | with common medicines like paracetamol | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with medicine=Instrument |

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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: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): R5-strong ×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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