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title: In an asthma attack, sit the person up, help them use their reliever… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: In an asthma attack, sit the person up, help them use their reliever inhaler and fetch an adult. Who acts: you, 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 15

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In an asthma attack, sit the person up, help them use their reliever inhaler and fetch an adult.

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**Who acts:** you, windows · **What happens:** sit up, help, use, fetch · **To what, where:** person, asthma attack, windows, reliever inhaler, adult

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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 (you, 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:15
# text = In an asthma attack, sit the person up, help them use their reliever inhaler and fetch an adult.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	asthma	asthma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	reliever	reliever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	inhaler	inhaler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | **sit up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person |  | a asthma attack |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent person=Theme in attack=Location |
| 2 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* | windows *= window* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive | windows *= window* *not said here* | windows's reliever inhaler |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhaler=Patient |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive | windows *= window* *not said here* | a adult |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=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:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:15`.

**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, R6-punct-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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