Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens, sentence 5
Hay fever is an allergy to pollen; histamine released by the immune system causes sneezing, itching and a runny nose, and it is worse on dry, windy days when more pollen is blown about.
Who acts: Hay fever, histamine, fever · What happens: be, release, cause, blow about · To what, where: allergy, histamine, sneezing, more pollen
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 (Hay fever, histamine, fever), 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 | Hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fever | compound |
| 2 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allergy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allergy | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 allergy | det |
| 5 | allergy | allergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pollen | case |
| 7 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allergy | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 causes | punct |
| 9 | histamine | histamine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 causes | nsubj |
| 10 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 histamine | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 system | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 system | det |
| 13 | immune | immune | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 system | amod |
| 14 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 released | obl:agent |
| 15 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allergy | parataxis |
| 16 | sneezing | sneezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 causes | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 itching | punct |
| 18 | itching | itch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sneezing | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nose | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 nose | det |
| 21 | runny | runny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nose | amod |
| 22 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sneezing | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 worse | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 worse | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 worse | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 worse | cop |
| 27 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 allergy | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 days | case |
| 29 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 days | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 days | punct |
| 31 | windy | windy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 days | amod |
| 32 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 worse | obl |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 blown | advmod |
| 34 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 pollen | amod |
| 35 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 blown | aux:pass |
| 37 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 days | acl:relcl |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 37 blown | compound:prt |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allergy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hay fever | a allergy | to pollen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | release | participle | histamine not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | cause | present | histamine | sneezing and itching and a runny nose | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sneezing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | fever | day | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | blow about | present · passive | more pollen | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
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:5.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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