Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 9
In a nut allergy the body's defence system overreacts to a harmless food, causing a rash, a swollen face or trouble breathing; then fetch an adult straight away and call 999, and people with severe allergies may carry an adrenaline pen.
Who acts: defence system, trouble, people · What happens: overreact, cause, breathe, fetch, call, carry · To what, where: nut allergy, rash, adult, 999, adrenaline pen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» of the biology 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 (defence system, trouble, people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 allergy | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 allergy | det |
| 3 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allergy | compound |
| 4 | allergy | allergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overreacts | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 body | det |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 system | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 body | case |
| 8 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 system | compound |
| 9 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overreacts | nsubj |
| 10 | overreacts | overreact | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 food | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 food | det |
| 13 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 food | amod |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overreacts | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 causing | punct |
| 16 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 overreacts | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rash | det |
| 18 | rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 causing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 face | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 face | det |
| 21 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 face | amod |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rash | conj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 trouble | cc |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 face | conj |
| 25 | breathing | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 trouble | acl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fetch | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 fetch | advmod |
| 28 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 overreacts | parataxis |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 adult | det |
| 30 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fetch | obj |
| 31 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 32 away | advmod |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 fetch | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 call | cc |
| 34 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 fetch | conj |
| 35 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 call | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 carry | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 carry | cc |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 carry | nsubj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 allergies | case |
| 40 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 allergies | amod |
| 41 | allergies | allergy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 people | nmod |
| 42 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 carry | aux |
| 43 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 overreacts | conj |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 pen | det |
| 45 | adrenaline | adrenaline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 pen | compound |
| 46 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carry | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 overreacts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overreact | present | the body's defence system | a nut allergy | to a harmless food | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cause | gerund | the body's defence system not said here | a rash and a swollen face or trouble | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rash=Patient | ||||
| 3 | breathe | gerund | trouble not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fetch | infinitive | a adult | then | away property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | |||
| 5 | call | infinitive | 999 | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | carry | may | people with severe allergies | a adrenaline pen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme |
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:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:9.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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.
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