Burns, sunburn and stings, sentence 4

For a few people a sting causes anaphylaxis, a whole-body allergic reaction: a swollen face or trouble breathing means call 999 at once.

Who acts: sting, trouble, swollen face · What happens: cause, breathe, mean, call · To what, where: anaphylaxis, 999 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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 (sting, trouble, swollen face), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 people	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 people	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 causes	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sting	det
6	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causes	nsubj
7	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	anaphylaxis	anaphylaxis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causes	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reaction	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 reaction	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 body	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 whole	punct
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reaction	compound
14	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 reaction	amod
15	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anaphylaxis	appos
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 causes	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 face	det
18	swollen	swell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 face	amod
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	nsubj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 face	cc
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 face	conj
22	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 trouble	acl
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 causes	parataxis
24	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 means	xcomp
25	999	999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 call	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	_	24 call	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 causes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	present	a sting	anaphylaxis	for a few people	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition anaphylaxis=Patient
2	breathe	gerund	trouble not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	a swollen face and trouble			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	call not said to happen	infinitive	a swollen face and trouble not said here	999		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent 999=Theme at once=Stimulus

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:006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.lesson:4.

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): R5-strong ×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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