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title: Natural does not mean safe: some herbal remedies can harm, or intera… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Natural does not mean safe: some herbal remedies can harm, or interact with other medicines. Who acts: Natural, herbal remedies. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 13

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Natural does not mean safe: some herbal remedies can harm, or interact with other medicines.

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**Who acts:** Natural, herbal remedies · **What happens:** not mean, harm, interact · **To what, where:** safe

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This is a sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» 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, herbal remedies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:020-at-the-pharmacy.lesson:13
# text = Natural does not mean safe: some herbal remedies can harm, or interact with other medicines.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 020-at-the-pharmacy.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	herbal	herbal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	remedies	remedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	interact	interact	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Natural | safe |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent safe=Topic |
| 2 | **harm** | can | some herbal remedies |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **interact** | infinitive | some herbal remedies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with other medicines | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with medicine=Co-Agent |

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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:medicine:020-at-the-pharmacy.lesson:13`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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