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title: If a jellyfish stings you, get out of the water, tell a lifeguard or… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: If a jellyfish stings you, get out of the water, tell a lifeguard or adult and rinse with seawater, not fresh water; in tropical Australia, such as northern Queensland, vinegar is used; weeing on a sting is a myth that does not help. Who acts: jellyfish, you, weeing, myth. A sentence of the lesson «
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 7

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If a jellyfish stings you, get out of the water, tell a lifeguard or adult and rinse with seawater, not fresh water; in tropical Australia, such as northern Queensland, vinegar is used; weeing on a sting is a myth that does not help.

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**Who acts:** jellyfish, you, weeing, myth · **What happens:** sting, get out, tell, rinse, use, wee · **To what, where:** you, water, lifeguard, vinegar, tropical Australia, sting · **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 (jellyfish, you, weeing, myth), 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:7
# text = If a jellyfish stings you, get out of the water, tell a lifeguard or adult and rinse with seawater, not fresh water; in tropical Australia, such as northern Queensland, vinegar is used; weeing on a sting is a myth that does not help.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stings	sting	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	seawater	seawater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Queensland	Queensland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
40	weeing	wee	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	csubj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
48	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **sting** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a jellyfish | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 2 | **get out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a lifeguard or adult |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lifeguard=Recipient |
| 4 | **rinse** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with seawater and fresh water | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** | present · passive |  | vinegar |  | tropical Australia such northern Queensland |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **wee** | gerund |  |  |  | a sting |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | weeing | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **help** | present · do-support | a myth |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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