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title: If someone is stung and then finds it hard to breathe, tell a grown-… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone is stung and then finds it hard to breathe, tell a grown-up at once and call the emergency number, because some people react badly to stings. Who acts: snake, you, people. A sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary s
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# Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 23

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If someone is stung and then finds it hard to breathe, tell a grown-up at once and call the emergency number, because some people react badly to stings.

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**Who acts:** snake, you, people · **What happens:** sting, find, breathe, tell, call, react · **To what, where:** someone, snake, grown, emergency number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday 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 (snake, you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:23
# text = If someone is stung and then finds it hard to breathe, tell a grown-up at once and call the emergency number, because some people react badly to stings.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 238-bites-and-things-you-find.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 ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
15	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	react	react	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
30	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **find** | present |  | snake |  |  | then | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient up=Topic |
| 5 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
| 6 | **react** | present | some people |  |  |  |  | to stings; badly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sting=Theme |

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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:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:23`.

**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 ×2. **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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