--- title: Medicine helps only the right person, in the right amount, at the ri… — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics description: Medicine helps only the right person, in the right amount, at the right time; the wrong medicine or too much of it can poison you, so only a trusted adult gives it. Who acts: Medicine, wrong medicine, trusted adult. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Medicine, wrong medicine, trusted adult), 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:2 # text = Medicine helps only the right person, in the right amount, at the right time; the wrong medicine or too much of it can poison you, so only a trusted adult gives it. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 poison poison VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:iobj 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Medicine | | the right person | the right amount | time | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary | | 2 | **poison** | can | the wrong medicine *not said here* | you | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 3 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | present | a trusted adult | Medicine | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **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:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Getting better, caring for others and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/1/) - next →: [Getting better, caring for others and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/)