--- title: If a child swallows pills by mistake, a grown-up calls NHS 111, the… — The right dose and never more than · tree and pragmatics description: If a child swallows pills by mistake, a grown-up calls NHS 111, the health advice phone line, or a poisons service, or 999 if the child is unwell, and brings the packet; making yourself sick is not the right thing. Who acts: child, making. 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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 (child, making), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.lesson:10 # text = If a child swallows pills by mistake, a grown-up calls NHS 111, the health advice phone line, or a poisons service, or 999 if the child is unwell, and brings the packet; making yourself sick is not the right thing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 nsubj _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 13 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 NHS NHS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 111 111 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 flat _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 poisons poison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 compound _ _ 26 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 appos _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 unwell unwell ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 acl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 37 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 packet packet NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 41 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 csubj _ _ 42 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 obj _ _ 43 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | present | a child | pills | | | | by mistake | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Patient | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **call** | present | | | NHS or a poisons service | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nhs=Recipient | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the child | | | | | unwell *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **bring** | present | | the packet | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent packet=Theme | | 6 | **make** | gerund | | yourself | | | | sick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product | | 7 | **not** **is a** | present | making | the right thing | | | | | tree rules | 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:018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×1, 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: [The right dose and never more than, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than/8/) - next →: [The right dose and never more than, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than/)