--- title: In a nut allergy the body's defence system overreacts to a harmless… — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics description: In a nut allergy the body's defence system overreacts to a harmless food, causing a rash, a swollen face or trouble breathing; then fetch an adult straight away and call 999, and people with severe allergies may carry an adrenaline pen. Who acts: defence system, trouble, people. A sentence of the le --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/) / 9 # Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 9 In a nut allergy the body's defence system overreacts to a harmless food, causing a rash, a swollen face or trouble breathing; then fetch an adult straight away and call 999, and people with severe allergies may carry an adrenaline pen. **Who acts:** defence system, trouble, people · **What happens:** overreact, cause, breathe, fetch, call, carry · **To what, where:** nut allergy, rash, adult, 999, adrenaline pen · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» of the biology 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 (defence system, trouble, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:9 # text = In a nut allergy the body's defence system overreacts to a harmless food, causing a rash, a swollen face or trouble breathing; then fetch an adult straight away and call 999, and people with severe allergies may carry an adrenaline pen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 allergy allergy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 overreacts overreact VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 causing cause VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rash rash NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 swollen swollen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 breathing breathe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 straight straight ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 35 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 severe severe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 allergies allergy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 44 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 adrenaline adrenaline NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overreact** | present | the body's defence system | | | a nut allergy | | to a harmless food | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | gerund | the body's defence system *not said here* | a rash and a swollen face or trouble | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rash=Patient | | 3 | **breathe** | gerund | trouble *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fetch** | infinitive | | a adult | | | then | away *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | | 5 | **call** | infinitive | | 999 | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient | | 6 | **carry** | may | people with severe allergies | a adrenaline pen | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:9`. **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, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/8/) - next →: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/)