--- title: The fever is not the illness, it is the body fighting; medicine like… — Fever · tree and pragmatics description: The fever is not the illness, it is the body fighting; medicine like paracetamol lowers it for a few hours but doesn't kill the germ, so it comes back until you've won. Who acts: fever, medicine, you. A sentence of the lesson «Fever» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/2/) [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/) / 2 # Fever, sentence 2 The fever is not the illness, it is the body fighting; medicine like paracetamol lowers it for a few hours but doesn't kill the germ, so it comes back until you've won. **Who acts:** fever, medicine, you · **What happens:** not be, be, fight, lower, not kill, come back · **To what, where:** illness, body, fever, germ 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, medicine, you), 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:2 # text = The fever is not the illness, it is the body fighting; medicine like paracetamol lowers it for a few hours but doesn't kill the germ, so it comes back until you've won. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 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 6 conj _ _ 12 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 paracetamol paracetamol NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 lowers lower VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 germ germ NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 until until SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the fever | the illness and the body | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | fever | the body | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fight** | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lower** | present | medicine like paracetamol | fever | | | hour | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **not** **kill** | present · do-support | medicine like paracetamol *not said here* | the germ | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 6 | **come back** | present | fever | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **win** | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-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: [Fever, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/0/) - next →: [Fever, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/)