Allergies, horses and farm animals, sentence 1

A few people are so allergic to a bee or wasp sting that their throat can swell and they struggle to breathe; this is called anaphylaxis, and it is an emergency.

Who acts: few people, throat, people · What happens: be, swell, struggle, breathe, call · To what, where: sting, this, emergency · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» of the everyday 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, throat, 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	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	6 allergic	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allergic	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 allergic	advmod
6	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 bee	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sting	det
9	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allergic	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 sting	cc
11	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bee	conj
12	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bee	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 swell	obj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 throat	nmod:poss
15	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swell	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 swell	aux
17	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sting	acl:relcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 struggle	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 struggle	nsubj
20	struggle	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 swell	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 breathe	mark
22	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 struggle	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 anaphylaxis	punct
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 called	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 called	aux:pass
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 allergic	conj
27	anaphylaxis	anaphylaxis	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 emergency	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 emergency	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 emergency	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 emergency	cop
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 emergency	det
33	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 called	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 allergic	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a few people		to bee and wasp or a sting; allergic property	tree rules
2	swell	can	people's throat	a sting		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient that=Extent
3	struggle	present	people			tree rules
4	breathe	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	call	present · passive		this		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	is a	present	throat	a emergency		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:everyday:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.lesson:1.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2. 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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