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title: When a cure works, scientists test it and publish the results; "they… — "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle c… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a cure works, scientists test it and publish the results; "they're hiding it" is not evidence that it works. Who acts: cure, scientists, cures, hiding. 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 with its dependency
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# "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure, sentence 18

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When a cure works, scientists test it and publish the results; "they're hiding it" is not evidence that it works.

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**Who acts:** cure, scientists, cures, hiding, evidence · **What happens:** work, test, publish, hide, not be · **To what, where:** evidence, results · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cure, scientists, cures, hiding), 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:18
# text = When a cure works, scientists test it and publish the results; "they're hiding it" is not evidence that it works.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	test	test	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	publish	publish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **work** | present | a cure |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **test** | present | scientists | evidence |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **publish** | present | scientists *not said here* | the results |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Result |
| 4 | **hide** *in a quote* | present · progressive | cures *= cure* | evidence |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | hiding | evidence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **work** | present | evidence | evidence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent evidence=Material |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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