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title: At a party in Auckland a boy with a peanut allergy tells the host's… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: At a party in Auckland a boy with a peanut allergy tells the host's parent before eating, reads the label on the biscuits, and has a safe, happy afternoon. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 3

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At a party in Auckland a boy with a peanut allergy tells the host's parent before eating, reads the label on the biscuits, and has a safe, happy afternoon.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** tell, eat, read, have · **To what, where:** parent, party, label, biscuits · **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 (boy), 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:3
# text = At a party in Auckland a boy with a peanut allergy tells the host's parent before eating, reads the label on the biscuits, and has a safe, happy afternoon.
# 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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	peanut	peanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	allergy	allergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a boy with a peanut allergy |  | the host's parent | a party in Auckland |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | a boy with a peanut allergy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | present | a boy with a peanut allergy *not said here* | the label |  | the biscuits |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | present | a boy with a peanut allergy *not said here* |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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): 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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