--- title: A fever means the body has turned up its thermostat to around 38 to… — Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad · tree and pragmatics description: A fever means the body has turned up its thermostat to around 38 to 39 degrees instead of about 37, which helps the immune system fight germs. Who acts: fever, body. 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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, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:14 # text = A fever means the body has turned up its thermostat to around 38 to 39 degrees instead of about 37, which helps the immune system fight germs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 thermostat thermostat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 around around ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 38 38 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 xcomp _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case 15 39 39 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 20 case _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 37 37 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 25 immune immune NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obj 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **mean** | present | a fever | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **turn up** | present · perfect | the body | body's thermostat | | | | instead 37; 39 degrees *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thermostat=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **fight** | infinitive | | germs | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent | 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:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:14`. **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 ×5, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good a…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/13/) - next →: [Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good a…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/)