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title: Weeing on a jellyfish sting does not help and can make it worse; rin… — Animals in the sea and the river · tree and pragmatics
description: Weeing on a jellyfish sting does not help and can make it worse; rinse with seawater, remove tentacles carefully and get help from a lifeguard. Who acts: Weeing. A sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 9

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Weeing on a jellyfish sting does not help and can make it worse; rinse with seawater, remove tentacles carefully and get help from a lifeguard.

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**Who acts:** Weeing · **What happens:** wee, not help, make, rinse, remove, get · **To what, where:** jellyfish sting, sting, tentacles, help, lifeguard

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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 (Weeing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:9
# text = Weeing on a jellyfish sting does not help and can make it worse; rinse with seawater, remove tentacles carefully and get help from a lifeguard.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Weeing	wee	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	seawater	seawater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
19	remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
24	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **wee** | gerund |  |  |  | a jellyfish sting |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **help** | present · do-support | Weeing |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | can | Weeing *not said here* | sting |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **rinse** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with seawater | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **remove** | infinitive |  | tentacles |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | infinitive |  | help |  | a lifeguard |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme from lifeguard=Source |

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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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**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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:9`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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