--- title: When you are ill, a lot of what you feel is not the germ itself but… — Why we sleep when ill · tree and pragmatics description: When you are ill, a lot of what you feel is not the germ itself but your own body fighting it: the immune system sends out chemical messengers that make you sleepy, achy and off your food. Who acts: you, lot, germ, immune system. 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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, lot, germ, immune system), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:031-why-we-sleep-when-ill.lesson:0 # text = When you are ill, a lot of what you feel is not the germ itself but your own body fighting it: the immune system sends out chemical messengers that make you sleepy, achy and off your food. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 031-why-we-sleep-when-ill.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 germ germ NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl:unmarked 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 21 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 immune immune ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 chemical chemical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 achy achy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 off off ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | you | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | present | you | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | a lot | the germ but your own body | | | | lot *nmod* | tree rules | | 4 | **fight** | gerund | the germ but your own body *not said here* | lot | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 5 | **send out** | present | the immune system | chemical messengers | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | chemical messengers | you | | | | sleepy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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:medicine:031-why-we-sleep-when-ill.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 ×2, 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: [Germs, the immune system and hand-wash…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing/17/) - next →: [Why we sleep when ill, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/)