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title: A fever is your body turning up its own heating to help fight an inf… — Fever · tree and pragmatics
description: A fever is your body turning up its own heating to help fight an infection; normal is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees. Who acts: fever, body, normal. A sentence of the lesson «Fever» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fever, sentence 0

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A fever is your body turning up its own heating to help fight an infection; normal is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees.

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**Who acts:** fever, body, normal · **What happens:** be, turn up, help, fight, heat · **To what, where:** body, own heating, infection, 36.5 degrees

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fever» 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 (fever, body, normal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:008-fever.lesson:0
# text = A fever is your body turning up its own heating to help fight an infection; normal is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 008-fever.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heating	heating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	36.5	36.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	37.5	37.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | a fever | your body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn up** | gerund | your body *not said here* | fever's own heating |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heating=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | your body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **fight** | infinitive | your body *not said here* | a infection |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | normal | 36.5 degrees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **heat** |  | fever |  |  |  |  |  | nom heating «process intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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