--- title: A fever is the body turning up the brain's thermostat to make it har… — The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines · tree and pragmatics description: A fever is the body turning up the brain's thermostat to make it harder for germs to multiply; it is usually helpful, but a very high fever needs a doctor. Who acts: fever, germs, germ, high 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 (fever, germs, germ, high fever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:10 # text = A fever is the body turning up the brain's thermostat to make it harder for germs to multiply; it is usually helpful, but a very high fever needs a doctor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 thermostat thermostat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 multiply multiply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the body | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn up** | gerund | a fever | the brain's thermostat | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thermostat=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | a fever *not said here* | thermostat | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **multiply** | to-infinitive | germs | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | germ | | | | | helpful, usually *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **need** | present | a high fever | a doctor | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme | 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:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:10`. **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): no change. **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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