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title: Inflammation, redness, warmth and swelling, is the body sending bloo… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics
description: Inflammation, redness, warmth and swelling, is the body sending blood and white cells to fight germs, but spreading redness with fever needs a doctor. Who acts: Inflammation, body, spreading. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's primar
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# Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 14

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Inflammation, redness, warmth and swelling, is the body sending blood and white cells to fight germs, but spreading redness with fever needs a doctor.

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**Who acts:** Inflammation, body, spreading · **What happens:** be, send, fight, spread, need · **To what, where:** body, blood, germs, redness, doctor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine 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 (Inflammation, body, spreading), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:14
# text = Inflammation, redness, warmth and swelling, is the body sending blood and white cells to fight germs, but spreading redness with fever needs a doctor.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.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	Inflammation	inflammation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	redness	redness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
23	redness	redness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | Inflammation and redness | the body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | gerund | the body *not said here* | blood and white cells |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the body *not said here* | germs |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **spread** | gerund |  | redness |  |  |  | with fever | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent redness=Destination with fever=Theme |
| 5 | **need** | present | spreading | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme |

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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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**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.

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

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