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title: Hives are raised itchy red patches caused by histamine, from food, h… — Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens · tree and pragmatics
description: Hives are raised itchy red patches caused by histamine, from food, heat, infection or nothing obvious; swelling of lips or tongue or trouble breathing needs an ambulance. Who acts: Hives, swelling, lips. A sentence of the lesson «Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens» of the medicine course of Mova's pri
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# Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens, sentence 12

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Hives are raised itchy red patches caused by histamine, from food, heat, infection or nothing obvious; swelling of lips or tongue or trouble breathing needs an ambulance.

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**Who acts:** Hives, swelling, lips · **What happens:** be, cause, need, swell · **To what, where:** raised itchy red patches, food, ambulance

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens» of the medicine 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 (Hives, swelling, lips), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:013-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens.lesson:12
# text = Hives are raised itchy red patches caused by histamine, from food, heat, infection or nothing obvious; swelling of lips or tongue or trouble breathing needs an ambulance.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 013-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hives	hive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	raised	raised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	itchy	itchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	histamine	histamine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	conj	_	_
19	obvious	obvious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Hives | raised itchy red patches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | participle |  | raised itchy red patches *not said here* |  | food and heat and infection |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **need** | present | swelling of lips or tongue or trouble breathing | a ambulance |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ambulance=Theme |
| 4 | **swell** |  | lips or tongue or trouble breathing |  |  |  |  |  | nom swelling «state intransitive»: of=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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**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:medicine:013-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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