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title: Swelling of the face or throat, trouble breathing or feeling faint a… — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: Swelling of the face or throat, trouble breathing or feeling faint after a sting is an emergency. Who acts: trouble, Swelling. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 14

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Swelling of the face or throat, trouble breathing or feeling faint after a sting is an emergency.

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**Who acts:** trouble, Swelling · **What happens:** breathe, feel, be · **To what, where:** emergency

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, wasps and stings» 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 (trouble, Swelling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:024-bees-and-wasps.lesson:14
# text = Swelling of the face or throat, trouble breathing or feeling faint after a sting is an emergency.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 024-bees-and-wasps.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): no change
1	Swelling	swell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
12	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **breathe** | gerund | trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | trouble *not said here* |  |  |  | after a sting | faint *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Swelling of the face or throat and trouble | a emergency |  |  |  |  | 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:everyday:024-bees-and-wasps.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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