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title: A fever is when the body raises its temperature to fight infection;… — Fever · tree and pragmatics
description: A fever is when the body raises its temperature to fight infection; normal body temperature is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius. Who acts: fever, body. 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 5

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A fever is when the body raises its temperature to fight infection; normal body temperature is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius.

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**Who acts:** fever, body · **What happens:** be, raise, fight · **To what, where:** temperature, infection, temperature 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), 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:5
# text = A fever is when the body raises its temperature to fight infection; normal body temperature is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	36.5	36.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	37.5	37.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
23	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | a fever |  |  |  |  | when *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise** | present | the body | fever's temperature |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the body *not said here* | infection |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | temperature 36.5 degrees |  |  |  | Celsius *nmod:unmarked* | 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:5`.

**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. **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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