Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 12

Aspirin should not be 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: doctor, Aspirin, rare illness · What happens: not give, say, cause, call · To what, where: Aspirin, children, rare illness, syndrome · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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 (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	Aspirin	aspirin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 given	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 given	aux:pass
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 given	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	9 16	case
9	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 children	nmod
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	13 says	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 doctor	det
12	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 given	advcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	13 says	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cause	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 cause	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cause	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cause	aux
19	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 given	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 illness	det
21	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 illness	amod
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 serious	cc
23	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rare	conj
24	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cause	obj
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 illness	acl
26	Reye	Reye	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 syndrome	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Reye	case
28	syndrome	syndrome	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not give	should · passive		Aspirin	children under 16	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to child=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	a doctor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	cause	can	Aspirin	a rare illness		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition illness=Patient
4	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:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:12.

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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