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title: An allergy is when the body's defences react strongly to something t… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: An allergy is when the body's defences react strongly to something that is harmless for most people, like peanuts, pollen or a bee sting; a severe reaction, called anaphylaxis, can kill quickly. Who acts: allergy, defences, body. A sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of 
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 1

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An allergy is when the body's defences react strongly to something that is harmless for most people, like peanuts, pollen or a bee sting; a severe reaction, called anaphylaxis, can kill quickly.

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**Who acts:** allergy, defences, body · **What happens:** be, react, call, kill, defend · **To what, where:** anaphylaxis · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» 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 (allergy, defences, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:1
# text = An allergy is when the body's defences react strongly to something that is harmless for most people, like peanuts, pollen or a bee sting; a severe reaction, called anaphylaxis, can kill quickly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	allergy	allergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	defences	defence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	react	react	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
10	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	peanuts	peanut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
34	anaphylaxis	anaphylaxis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
38	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	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 allergy |  |  |  |  | when *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **react** | present | the body's defences |  |  |  |  | to something; strongly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to something=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for most people; like peanuts and pollen or a bee sting; harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | anaphylaxis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kill** | can |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **defend** |  | the body |  |  |  |  |  | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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