--- title: Whether you have a cold or a fever, your body needs drinks and energ… — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics description: Whether you have a cold or a fever, your body needs drinks and energy to fight the germs; the old saying «feed a cold, starve a fever» is a myth. Who acts: you, body, old saying. 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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 (you, body, old saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:0 # text = Whether you have a cold or a fever, your body needs drinks and energy to fight the germs; the old saying «feed a cold, starve a fever» is a myth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 082-getting-better-and-medicines.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 5 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 25 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 starve starve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | you | a cold or a fever | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient | | 2 | **need** | present | your body | drinks and energy | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme | | 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | your body *not said here* | the germs | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent | | 4 | **feed** *in a quote* | infinitive | your body *not said here* | a cold | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Recipient | | 5 | **starve** *in a quote* | infinitive | your body *not said here* | a fever | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | the old saying | a myth | | | | | tree rules | 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:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Food, drinks and feeling ill, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/22/) - next →: [Getting better, caring for others and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/)