Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 1
An allergy is when the body's defences react strongly to something that is harmless for most people, like peanuts, pollen or a bee sting; a severe reaction, called anaphylaxis, can kill quickly.
Who acts: allergy, defences, body · What happens: be, react, call, kill, defend · To what, where: anaphylaxis · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» 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 (allergy, defences, body), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 allergy | det |
| 2 | allergy | allergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 when | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 when | cop |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 react | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 body | det |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 defences | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 body | case |
| 8 | defences | defence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 react | nsubj |
| 9 | react | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 kill | advcl |
| 10 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 9 react | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 something | case |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 react | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 harmless | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 harmless | cop |
| 15 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 something | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 harmless | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 peanuts | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 peanuts | case |
| 21 | peanuts | peanut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 harmless | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pollen | punct |
| 23 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 peanuts | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 sting | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sting | det |
| 26 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sting | compound |
| 27 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 peanuts | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 reaction | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 reaction | det |
| 30 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 reaction | amod |
| 31 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 something | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 anaphylaxis | punct |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 anaphylaxis | acl |
| 34 | anaphylaxis | anaphylaxis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 something | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 react | punct |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 kill | aux |
| 37 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 38 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 37 kill | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a allergy | when property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | react | present | the body's defences | to something; strongly property | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | for most people; like peanuts and pollen or a bee sting; harmless property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call | participle | anaphylaxis not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | kill | can | quickly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | defend | the body | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent |
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:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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 ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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