First aid, medicine and the sun, sentence 2

Medicine is chosen by adults and doctors: aspirin is not given to children under 16 unless a doctor says so, because it can cause a rare but serious illness called Reye's syndrome.

Who acts: adults, doctor, aspirin, rare illness · What happens: choose, not give, say, cause, call · To what, where: Medicine, aspirin, children, rare illness, syndrome · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «First aid, medicine and the sun» of the everyday 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 (adults, doctor, aspirin, rare illness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medicine	Medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chosen	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux:pass
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chosen	obl:agent
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 doctors	cc
7	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 adults	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 chosen	punct
9	aspirin	aspirin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 given	advmod
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chosen	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 children	case
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 given	obl
15	under	under	ADP	_	16 16	case
16	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 children	nmod
17	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	20 says	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 doctor	det
19	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 says	nsubj
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 given	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	20 says	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cause	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 cause	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cause	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 cause	aux
26	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 given	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 illness	det
28	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 illness	amod
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 serious	cc
30	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rare	conj
31	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cause	obj
32	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 illness	acl
33	Reye	Reye	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 syndrome	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Reye	case
35	syndrome	syndrome	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 called	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	choose	present · passive	adults and doctors	Medicine		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	not give	present · passive		aspirin	children under 16	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to child=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	present	a doctor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	cause	can	aspirin	a rare illness		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition illness=Patient
5	call	participle	a rare illness not said here	Reye's syndrome		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, 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:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun.lesson:2.

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.

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