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title: For most people a sting is just painful, but some people are allergi… — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: For most people a sting is just painful, but some people are allergic: if someone's face, lips or throat swell, or they find it hard to breathe or feel faint, call the emergency number at once and use their adrenaline pen if they have one. Who acts: sting, people. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, was
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# Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 4

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For most people a sting is just painful, but some people are allergic: if someone's face, lips or throat swell, or they find it hard to breathe or feel faint, call the emergency number at once and use their adrenaline pen if they have one.

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**Who acts:** sting, people · **What happens:** be, find, breathe, feel, call, use · **To what, where:** emergency number, adrenaline pen, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sting, people), 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:4
# text = For most people a sting is just painful, but some people are allergic: if someone's face, lips or throat swell, or they find it hard to breathe or feel faint, call the emergency number at once and use their adrenaline pen if they have one.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	allergic	allergic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	swell	swell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	expl	_	_
30	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	37	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	adrenaline	adrenaline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	obj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a sting |  |  |  |  | for most people; painful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | some people |  |  |  |  | allergic *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | present | people |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feel** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | faint *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **call** | infinitive |  | the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent number=Theme at once=Stimulus |
| 7 | **use** | infinitive |  | people's adrenaline pen |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Patient |
| 8 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | people | one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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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**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. **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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