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title: Medicines are medicine, not candy, and an unknown liquid in an old d… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics
description: Medicines are medicine, not candy, and an unknown liquid in an old drink bottle may be a chemical; you never drink it. Who acts: Medicines, you. A sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 3

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Medicines are medicine, not candy, and an unknown liquid in an old drink bottle may be a chemical; you never drink it.

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**Who acts:** Medicines, you · **What happens:** be, not drink · **To what, where:** medicine, chemical

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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 (Medicines, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:3
# text = Medicines are medicine, not candy, and an unknown liquid in an old drink bottle may be a chemical; you never drink it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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 ×1
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	candy	candy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	chemical	chemical	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | medicine and candy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | may | Medicines and a unknown liquid in a old drink bottle | a chemical |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **drink** | present | you | chemical |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:3`.

**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 ×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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