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title: For a few people a sting causes anaphylaxis, a whole-body allergic r… — Burns, sunburn and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: For a few people a sting causes anaphylaxis, a whole-body allergic reaction: a swollen face or trouble breathing means call 999 at once. Who acts: sting, trouble, swollen face. A sentence of the lesson «Burns, sunburn and stings» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Burns, sunburn and stings, sentence 4

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For a few people a sting causes anaphylaxis, a whole-body allergic reaction: a swollen face or trouble breathing means call 999 at once.

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**Who acts:** sting, trouble, swollen face · **What happens:** cause, breathe, mean, call · **To what, where:** anaphylaxis, 999 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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 (sting, trouble, swollen face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.lesson:4
# text = For a few people a sting causes anaphylaxis, a whole-body allergic reaction: a swollen face or trouble breathing means call 999 at once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	anaphylaxis	anaphylaxis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	allergic	allergic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	swollen	swell	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	_	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | present | a sting | anaphylaxis |  |  |  | for a few people | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition anaphylaxis=Patient |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund | trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a swollen face and trouble |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **call** *not said to happen* | infinitive | a swollen face and trouble *not said here* | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent 999=Theme at once=Stimulus |

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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. **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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