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title: Medicines look like sweets to small children, so they are kept locke… — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics
description: Medicines look like sweets to small children, so they are kept locked up high, out of reach and sight. Who acts: Medicines, medicine. A sentence of the lesson «How medicines work» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How medicines work, sentence 4

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Medicines look like sweets to small children, so they are kept locked up high, out of reach and sight.

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**Who acts:** Medicines, medicine · **What happens:** look, keep, lock up · **To what, where:** medicine, reach

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How medicines work» of the medicine 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 (Medicines, medicine), 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:4
# text = Medicines look like sweets to small children, so they are kept locked up high, out of reach and sight.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
13	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **look** | present | Medicines |  |  |  |  | like sweets; to small children | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to child=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present · passive |  | medicine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lock up** | participle | medicine *not said here* |  |  | reach and sight |  | high *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:4`.

**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, R7-rel-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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