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title: A few people have a strong allergic reaction to stings that can swel… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A few people have a strong allergic reaction to stings that can swell the face and make breathing hard; that is an emergency, and in Ukraine and across Europe the emergency number is 112. Who acts: few people, stings, that, emergency number. A sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mos
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# Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 10

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A few people have a strong allergic reaction to stings that can swell the face and make breathing hard; that is an emergency, and in Ukraine and across Europe the emergency number is 112.

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**Who acts:** few people, stings, that, emergency number · **What happens:** have, swell, make, breathe, be · **To what, where:** strong allergic reaction, face, emergency, 112, Ukraine

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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 (few people, stings, that, emergency number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:10
# text = A few people have a strong allergic reaction to stings that can swell the face and make breathing hard; that is an emergency, and in Ukraine and across Europe the emergency number is 112.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	allergic	allergic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	swell	swell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	obj	_	_
19	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	across	across	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	112	112	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	parataxis	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a few people | a strong allergic reaction |  |  |  | to stings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reaction=Patient |
| 2 | **swell** | can | stings | the face |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient face=Extent |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | stings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | that | a emergency |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the emergency number | 112 |  | Ukraine and Europe |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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