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title: Fever medicines lower the temperature for a few hours but don't kill… — Fever · tree and pragmatics
description: Fever medicines lower the temperature for a few hours but don't kill the infection, so the fever can come back. Who acts: Fever medicines, fever. 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 12

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Fever medicines lower the temperature for a few hours but don't kill the infection, so the fever can come back.

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**Who acts:** Fever medicines, fever · **What happens:** lower, not kill, come back · **To what, where:** temperature, infection

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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 medicines, fever), 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:12
# text = Fever medicines lower the temperature for a few hours but don't kill the infection, so the fever can come back.
# 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	Fever	Fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lower	lower	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lower** | present | Fever medicines | the temperature |  |  | hour |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **kill** | present · do-support | Fever medicines *not said here* | the infection |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme |
| 3 | **come back** | can | the fever |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:12`.

**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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