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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natural | Natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mean | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | _ | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mean | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 poisonous | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 plants | det |
| 9 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 poisonous | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 poisonous | cop |
| 11 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mean | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
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, 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.
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