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description: Herbal pills can affect the body like other medicines and can do harm, so ask a pharmacist (the medicines expert at the chemist's) before taking one. Who acts: Herbal pills. A sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world course of Mova's primary school wi
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# "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure, sentence 11

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Herbal pills can affect the body like other medicines and can do harm, so ask a pharmacist (the medicines expert at the chemist's) before taking one.

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**Who acts:** Herbal pills · **What happens:** affect, do, ask, take · **To what, where:** body, harm, pharmacist, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world 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 (Herbal pills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson:11
# text = Herbal pills can affect the body like other medicines and can do harm, so ask a pharmacist (the medicines expert at the chemist's) before taking one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Herbal	herbal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	affect	affect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chemist	chemist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
28	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | can | Herbal pills | the body |  |  |  | like other medicines | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | can | Herbal pills *not said here* | harm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  | a pharmacist |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pharmacist=Recipient |
| 4 | **take** | gerund |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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