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title: A molecule is the same whether a plant or a lab made it, and natural… — Molecules: when atoms join up · tree and pragmatics
description: A molecule is the same whether a plant or a lab made it, and natural does not always mean safe: the berries of deadly nightshade, a wild plant, are poisonous. Who acts: molecule, plant, natural, berries. A sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» of the chemistry course of Mova's prima
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# Molecules: when atoms join up, sentence 18

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A molecule is the same whether a plant or a lab made it, and natural does not always mean safe: the berries of deadly nightshade, a wild plant, are poisonous.

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**Who acts:** molecule, plant, natural, berries · **What happens:** be, make, not mean · **To what, where:** lab

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» of the chemistry 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 (molecule, plant, natural, berries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.lesson:18
# text = A molecule is the same whether a plant or a lab made it, and natural does not always mean safe: the berries of deadly nightshade, a wild plant, are poisonous.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	molecule	molecule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lab	lab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	nightshade	nightshade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
35	.	.	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 | **is** | present | a molecule |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | a plant or a lab | lab |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | natural |  |  |  |  | always, safe *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the berries of deadly nightshade |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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