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title: Medicines should only be taken when a trusted adult gives them, foll… — Medicines, doctors and hospitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Medicines should only be taken when a trusted adult gives them, following the instructions from a doctor, a pharmacist or the label — some pills look like sweets but can make you very ill. Who acts: trusted adult, pills. A sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world course
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# Medicines, doctors and hospitals, sentence 1

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Medicines should only be taken when a trusted adult gives them, following the instructions from a doctor, a pharmacist or the label — some pills look like sweets but can make you very ill.

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**Who acts:** trusted adult, pills · **What happens:** take, give, follow, look, make · **To what, where:** Medicines, them, instructions, doctor, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world 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 (trusted adult, pills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.lesson:1
# text = Medicines should only be taken when a trusted adult gives them, following the instructions from a doctor, a pharmacist or the label — some pills look like sweets but can make you very ill.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	trusted	trusted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **take** | should · passive |  | Medicines |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | a trusted adult | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  | the instructions |  | a doctor and a pharmacist or the label |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme from doctor=Trajectory |
| 4 | **look** | present | some pills |  |  |  |  | like sweets | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | can | some pills *not said here* | you |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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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:world:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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