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title: Calpol is a brand of paracetamol for children; painkillers block pai… — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics
description: Calpol is a brand of paracetamol for children; painkillers block pain signals and lower fever but don't cure the cause. Who acts: Calpol, painkillers. 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 cl
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# How medicines work, sentence 5

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Calpol is a brand of paracetamol for children; painkillers block pain signals and lower fever but don't cure the cause.

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**Who acts:** Calpol, painkillers · **What happens:** be, block, lower, not cure · **To what, where:** brand, pain signals, fever, cause

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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 (Calpol, painkillers), 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:5
# text = Calpol is a brand of paracetamol for children; painkillers block pain signals and lower fever but don't cure the cause.
# 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): no change
1	Calpol	Calpol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	paracetamol	paracetamol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	painkillers	painkiller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	block	block	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lower	lower	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Calpol | a brand |  |  |  | of paracetamol for children | tree rules |
| 2 | **block** | present | painkillers | pain signals |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer signal=Theme |
| 3 | **lower** | present | painkillers *not said here* | fever |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **cure** | present · do-support | painkillers *not said here* | the cause |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cause=Source |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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