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title: In a skin prick test, tiny drops of possible allergens (things that… — Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens · tree and pragmatics
description: In a skin prick test, tiny drops of possible allergens (things that may cause an allergy) are put on the arm and the skin is gently pricked; it does not give you an allergy. Who acts: things, skin. A sentence of the lesson «Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens» of the medicine course of Mova's primary s
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# Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens, sentence 13

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In a skin prick test, tiny drops of possible allergens (things that may cause an allergy) are put on the arm and the skin is gently pricked; it does not give you an allergy.

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**Who acts:** things, skin · **What happens:** cause, put, prick, not give · **To what, where:** allergy, tiny drops, prick test, skin, you

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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 (things, skin), 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:13
# text = In a skin prick test, tiny drops of possible allergens (things that may cause an allergy) are put on the arm and the skin is gently pricked; it does not give you an allergy.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
4	prick	prick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	allergens	allergen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	allergy	allergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	pricked	prick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	allergy	allergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **cause** | may | things | a allergy |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition allergy=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | present · passive |  | tiny drops of possible allergens |  | a prick test |  | on the arm | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on arm=Destination |
| 3 | **prick** | present · passive |  | the skin |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | skin | a allergy | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient allergy=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): R5-strong ×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.

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