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title: An adrenaline auto-injector opens the airways and raises blood press… — Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens · tree and pragmatics
description: An adrenaline auto-injector opens the airways and raises blood pressure fast; it is pressed firmly into the outer thigh, even through clothes, and 999 is called because the reaction can come back. Who acts: adrenaline auto injector, reaction. A sentence of the lesson «Hay fever, allergies and EpiPen
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# Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens, sentence 8

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An adrenaline auto-injector opens the airways and raises blood pressure fast; it is pressed firmly into the outer thigh, even through clothes, and 999 is called because the reaction can come back.

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**Who acts:** adrenaline auto injector, reaction · **What happens:** open, raise, press, call, come back · **To what, where:** airways, blood pressure, injector, outer thigh, 999 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (adrenaline auto injector, reaction), 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:8
# text = An adrenaline auto-injector opens the airways and raises blood pressure fast; it is pressed firmly into the outer thigh, even through clothes, and 999 is called because the reaction can come back.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	adrenaline	adrenaline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	auto	auto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	injector	injector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	airways	airway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
18	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **open** | present | a adrenaline auto injector | the airways |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location airway=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | present | a adrenaline auto injector *not said here* | blood pressure |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme |
| 3 | **press** | present · passive |  | injector |  | the outer thigh |  | through clothes; firmly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **come back** | can | the reaction |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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): 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.

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