--- title: Epilepsy causes seizures from bursts of electrical activity in the b… — A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term c… · tree and pragmatics description: Epilepsy causes seizures from bursts of electrical activity in the brain; nothing should be put in the mouth, and nobody can swallow their tongue. Who acts: Epilepsy, nobody. 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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 (Epilepsy, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.lesson:12 # text = Epilepsy causes seizures from bursts of electrical activity in the brain; nothing should be put in the mouth, and nobody can swallow their tongue. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.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 1 Epilepsy epilepsy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 seizures seizure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 bursts burst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 electrical electrical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 activity activity NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | present | Epilepsy | seizures | | bursts of electrical activity in the brain | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition seizure=Patient | | 2 | **put** | should · passive | | nothing | | the mouth | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mouth=Destination | | 3 | **swallow** | can | nobody | tablets's tongue | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | | 4 | **burst** | | | electrical activity in the brain | | | | | nom burst «act transitive»: of=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:016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.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): R5-strong ×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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