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title: A rash of tiny spots that doesn't fade when you press a glass on it,… — Fever · tree and pragmatics
description: A rash of tiny spots that doesn't fade when you press a glass on it, or a child who is floppy and very sleepy, is an emergency. Who acts: tiny spots, you, child, rash. A sentence of the lesson «Fever» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fever, sentence 4

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A rash of tiny spots that doesn't fade when you press a glass on it, or a child who is floppy and very sleepy, is an emergency.

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**Who acts:** tiny spots, you, child, rash · **What happens:** not fade, press, be · **To what, where:** glass, fever, emergency

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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 (tiny spots, you, child, rash), 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:4
# text = A rash of tiny spots that doesn't fade when you press a glass on it, or a child who is floppy and very sleepy, is an emergency.
# 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	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	fade	fade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	floppy	floppy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fade** | present · do-support | tiny spots |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **press** | present | you | a glass |  | fever |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | a child |  |  |  |  | floppy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a rash of tiny spots and a child | a emergency |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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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