--- title: Febrile seizures, or fever fits, are fits caused by a rising fever i… — Fever · tree and pragmatics description: Febrile seizures, or fever fits, are fits caused by a rising fever in children aged about 6 months to 5 years; they are scary but almost always harmless and don't mean epilepsy, an illness of repeated fits. Who acts: Febrile seizures, seizures. A sentence of the lesson «Fever» of the medicine course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Fever](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/) / 11 # Fever, sentence 11 Febrile seizures, or fever fits, are fits caused by a rising fever in children aged about 6 months to 5 years; they are scary but almost always harmless and don't mean epilepsy, an illness of repeated fits. **Who acts:** Febrile seizures, seizures · **What happens:** be, cause, rise, age, not mean, repeat · **To what, where:** fits, children, epilepsy 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 (Febrile seizures, seizures), 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:11 # text = Febrile seizures, or fever fits, are fits caused by a rising fever in children aged about 6 months to 5 years; they are scary but almost always harmless and don't mean epilepsy, an illness of repeated fits. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Febrile febrile NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 seizures seizure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 fits fit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 fits fit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:agent _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 aged age VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 acl _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 almost almost ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 31 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 36 epilepsy epilepsy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 repeated repeat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 fits fit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 a** | present | Febrile seizures or fever fits | fits | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | participle | | fits *not said here* | | | | in children | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in child=Patient | | 3 | **rise** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **age** | participle | | children *not said here* | | | month; year | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | seizures *= seizure* | | | | | scary *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | seizures *= seizure* *not said here* | | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | seizures *= seizure* *not said here* | epilepsy | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent epilepsy=Topic | | 8 | **repeat** | participle | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:008-fever.lesson:11`. **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 ×3. **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: [Fever, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/10/) - next →: [Fever, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/)