--- title: Natural doesn't always mean safe: some plants are poisonous. — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics description: Natural doesn't always mean safe: some plants are poisonous. Who acts: Natural, plants. A sentence of the lesson «How medicines work» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [How medicines work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/) / 16 # How medicines work, sentence 16 Natural doesn't always mean safe: some plants are poisonous. **Who acts:** Natural, plants · **What happens:** not mean, be This is a sentence of the lesson «How medicines work» of the medicine 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 (Natural, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:16 # text = Natural doesn't always mean safe: some plants are poisonous. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 017-how-medicines-work.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): no change 1 Natural Natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 always always ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Natural | | | | | always, safe *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | some plants | | | | | poisonous *property* | tree rules | 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](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:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:16`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How medicines work, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/15/) - next →: [How medicines work, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/)