Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens, sentence 3

The worst reaction, anaphylaxis, can be life-threatening; an adrenaline pen like an EpiPen opens the airways fast, and if in doubt it is safer to use it than to wait.

Who acts: worst reaction, life, adrenaline pen · What happens: be, threaten, open, use, wait · To what, where: life, airways, doubt, pen

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens» of the medicine 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 (worst reaction, life, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reaction	det
2	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 reaction	amod
3	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 life	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 anaphylaxis	punct
5	anaphylaxis	anaphylaxis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reaction	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reaction	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 life	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 life	cop
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 threatening	punct
11	threatening	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 life	acl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 life	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pen	det
14	adrenaline	adrenaline	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pen	compound
15	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 opens	nsubj
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 EpiPen	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 EpiPen	det
18	EpiPen	EpiPen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 pen	nmod
19	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 threatening	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 airways	det
21	airways	airway	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 opens	obj
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 opens	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 safer	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 safer	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 safer	mark
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 doubt	case
27	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 safer	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 safer	expl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 safer	cop
30	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 opens	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 use	mark
32	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 safer	csubj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 use	obj
34	than	than	SCONJ	_	36 wait	mark
35	to	to	PART	_	36 wait	mark
36	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 use	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	can	the worst reaction	life			tree rules
2	threaten	gerund	life not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	open	present	a adrenaline pen like a EpiPen	the airways		fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location airway=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	a adrenaline pen like a EpiPen not said here		doubt	safe property	tree rules
5	use	to-infinitive		pen			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	wait	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:medicine:013-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens.lesson:3.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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