--- title: Calpol is children's paracetamol: it blocks pain signals and lowers… — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics description: Calpol is children's paracetamol: it blocks pain signals and lowers fever, but it doesn't cure the cause; your body does the healing. Who acts: Calpol, tablet, body. 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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 (Calpol, tablet, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:1 # text = Calpol is children's paracetamol: it blocks pain signals and lowers fever, but it doesn't cure the cause; your body does the healing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 017-how-medicines-work.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Calpol Calpol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 paracetamol paracetamol NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 blocks block VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 lowers lower VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Calpol | children's paracetamol | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **block** | present | tablet | pain signals | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer signal=Theme | | 3 | **lower** | present | tablet *not said here* | fever | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Theme | | 4 | **not** **cure** | present · do-support | tablet | the cause | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cause=Source | | 5 | **do** | present | your body | the healing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent healing=Eventuality | 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:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [How medicines work, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/0/) - next →: [How medicines work, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/)