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title: A boy in Ireland with a nut allergy shared a friend's biscuit at a p… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ireland with a nut allergy shared a friend's biscuit at a party; within minutes his lips swelled and he struggled to breathe, and his adrenaline pen and an ambulance saved him. Who acts: boy, lips, adrenaline pen. A sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of the eve
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 16

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A boy in Ireland with a nut allergy shared a friend's biscuit at a party; within minutes his lips swelled and he struggled to breathe, and his adrenaline pen and an ambulance saved him.

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**Who acts:** boy, lips, adrenaline pen · **What happens:** share, swell, struggle, breathe, save · **To what, where:** biscuit, party, boy

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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 (boy, lips, adrenaline pen), 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:16
# text = A boy in Ireland with a nut allergy shared a friend's biscuit at a party; within minutes his lips swelled and he struggled to breathe, and his adrenaline pen and an ambulance saved him.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	allergy	allergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	adrenaline	adrenaline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **share** | past | a boy in Ireland with a nut allergy | a friend's biscuit |  | a party |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swell** | past | boy's lips |  |  |  | minute |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **struggle** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **save** | past | boy's adrenaline pen and a ambulance | boy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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**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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