--- title: The worst reaction, anaphylaxis, can be life-threatening; an adrenal… — Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens · tree and pragmatics description: The worst reaction, anaphylaxis, can be life-threatening; an adrenaline pen like an EpiPen opens the airways fast, and if in doubt it is safer to use it than to wait. Who acts: worst reaction, life, adrenaline pen. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worst reaction, life, adrenaline pen), 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:3 # text = The worst reaction, anaphylaxis, can be life-threatening; an adrenaline pen like an EpiPen opens the airways fast, and if in doubt it is safer to use it than to wait. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 reaction reaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 anaphylaxis anaphylaxis NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 threatening threaten VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 adrenaline adrenaline NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 EpiPen EpiPen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 airways airway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 csubj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 than than SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | can | the worst reaction | life | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **threaten** | gerund | life *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **open** | present | a adrenaline pen like a EpiPen | the airways | | | | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location airway=Theme | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a adrenaline pen like a EpiPen *not said here* | | | doubt | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | to-infinitive | | pen | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **wait** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:3`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens/1/) - next →: [Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens/)