Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 10

A few people have a strong allergic reaction to stings that can swell the face and make breathing hard; that is an emergency, and in Ukraine and across Europe the emergency number is 112.

Who acts: few people, stings, that, emergency number · What happens: have, swell, make, breathe, be · To what, where: strong allergic reaction, face, emergency, 112, Ukraine

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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 (few people, stings, that, emergency number), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reaction	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reaction	amod
7	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reaction	amod
8	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 stings	case
10	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reaction	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 swell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 swell	aux
13	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stings	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 face	det
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swell	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 make	cc
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 swell	conj
18	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 make	obj
19	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 breathing	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 emergency	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 emergency	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 emergency	cop
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 emergency	det
24	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 112	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Ukraine	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Ukraine	case
28	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 112	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Europe	cc
30	across	across	ADP	_	31 Europe	case
31	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Ukraine	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 number	det
33	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 number	compound
34	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 112	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 112	cop
36	112	112	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 have	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a few people	a strong allergic reaction		to stings	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reaction=Patient
2	swell	can	stings	the face			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient face=Extent
3	make	infinitive	stings not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	breathe	gerund				hard property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	that	a emergency			tree rules
6	is a	present	the emergency number	112	Ukraine and Europe		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:biology:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:10.

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): R6-punct-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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