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title: Normal body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius; in a fever the… — Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Normal body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius; in a fever the brain turns the thermostat up to make life harder for germs, and shivering is the body heating itself to the new setting. Who acts: Normal body temperature, brain, shivering. A sentence of the lesson «Staying healthy: germs, vaccine
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# Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise, sentence 9

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Normal body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius; in a fever the brain turns the thermostat up to make life harder for germs, and shivering is the body heating itself to the new setting.

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**Who acts:** Normal body temperature, brain, shivering · **What happens:** be, turn up, make · **To what, where:** 37 degrees, thermostat, fever, life, body heating

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise» of the biology 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 (Normal body temperature, brain, shivering), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:072-staying-healthy.lesson:9
# text = Normal body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius; in a fever the brain turns the thermostat up to make life harder for germs, and shivering is the body heating itself to the new setting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 072-staying-healthy.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thermostat	thermostat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound:prt
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	shivering	shivering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	heating	heating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
32	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nmod:unmarked
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Normal body temperature | 37 degrees |  |  |  | Celsius *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn up** | present | the brain | the thermostat |  | a fever |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thermostat=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* | life |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | present | shivering | the body heating |  |  |  | to the new setting | tree rules |

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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:biology:072-staying-healthy.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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