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title: Shop medicines and vitamins are not sweets: swallowing too many is a… — The right dose and never more than · tree and pragmatics
description: Shop medicines and vitamins are not sweets: swallowing too many is an emergency, so a grown-up calls 111 or 999 and brings the packet. Who acts: Shop medicines, swallowing, grown. A sentence of the lesson «The right dose and never more than» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# The right dose and never more than, sentence 4

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Shop medicines and vitamins are not sweets: swallowing too many is an emergency, so a grown-up calls 111 or 999 and brings the packet.

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**Who acts:** Shop medicines, swallowing, grown · **What happens:** not be, swallow, be, call, bring · **To what, where:** sweets, many, emergency, 111, packet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The right dose and never more than» 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 (Shop medicines, swallowing, grown), 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:4
# text = Shop medicines and vitamins are not sweets: swallowing too many is an emergency, so a grown-up calls 111 or 999 and brings the packet.
# 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
1	Shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
4	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound	_	_
21	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	packet	packet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Shop medicines and vitamins | sweets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | gerund |  | many |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | swallowing | a emergency |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | present | a grown | 111 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 111=Recipient |
| 5 | **bring** | present | a grown *not said here* | the packet |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent packet=Theme |

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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:018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.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): R1-cc-next ×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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