Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 16
A boy in Ireland with a nut allergy shared a friend's biscuit at a party; within minutes his lips swelled and he struggled to breathe, and his adrenaline pen and an ambulance saved him.
Who acts: boy, lips, adrenaline pen · What happens: share, swell, struggle, breathe, save · To what, where: biscuit, party, boy
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 (boy, lips, adrenaline pen), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shared | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 allergy | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 allergy | det |
| 7 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 allergy | compound |
| 8 | allergy | allergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 9 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 biscuit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 13 | biscuit | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shared | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 party | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 party | det |
| 16 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shared | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 swelled | punct |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 19 minutes | case |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 swelled | obl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lips | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 swelled | nsubj |
| 22 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shared | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 struggled | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 struggled | nsubj |
| 25 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 swelled | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 breathe | mark |
| 27 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 struggled | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saved | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 saved | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 pen | nmod:poss |
| 31 | adrenaline | adrenaline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pen | compound |
| 32 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saved | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ambulance | cc |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 ambulance | det |
| 35 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pen | conj |
| 36 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 swelled | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 saved | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | a boy in Ireland with a nut allergy | a friend's biscuit | a party | tree rules | |||
| 2 | swell | past | boy's lips | minute | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | struggle | past | boy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | breathe | to-infinitive | boy not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | save | past | boy's adrenaline pen and a ambulance | boy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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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