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title: Hay fever is an allergy to pollen; keeping windows closed on high po… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: Hay fever is an allergy to pollen; keeping windows closed on high pollen days and washing your face after being outside helps. Who acts: Hay fever, windows. A sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 14

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Hay fever is an allergy to pollen; keeping windows closed on high pollen days and washing your face after being outside helps.

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**Who acts:** Hay fever, windows · **What happens:** be, keep, close, wash · **To what, where:** allergy, windows, face

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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 (Hay fever, windows), 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:14
# text = Hay fever is an allergy to pollen; keeping windows closed on high pollen days and washing your face after being outside helps.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	allergy	allergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	appos	_	_
10	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
22	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 a** | present | Hay fever | a allergy |  |  |  | to pollen | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund |  | windows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **close** | participle | windows *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **wash** | gerund |  | your face |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | help *property* | 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:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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