--- title: Hay fever is an allergy to pollen; histamine released by the immune… — Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens · tree and pragmatics description: Hay fever is an allergy to pollen; histamine released by the immune system causes sneezing, itching and a runny nose, and it is worse on dry, windy days when more pollen is blown about. Who acts: Hay fever, histamine, fever. 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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 (Hay fever, histamine, fever), 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:5 # text = Hay fever is an allergy to pollen; histamine released by the immune system causes sneezing, itching and a runny nose, and it is worse on dry, windy days when more pollen is blown about. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 allergy allergy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 histamine histamine NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 10 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 immune immune ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:agent _ _ 15 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 sneezing sneezing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 itching itch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 runny runny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 windy windy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 34 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 35 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ _ 38 about about ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Hay fever | a allergy | | | | to pollen | tree rules | | 2 | **release** | participle | | histamine *not said here* | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 3 | **cause** | present | histamine | sneezing and itching and a runny nose | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sneezing=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | fever | | | | day | bad *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **blow about** | present · passive | | more pollen | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | 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:5`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens/4/) - next →: [Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens/)