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title: At home children's temperature is measured with a digital thermomete… — Fever · tree and pragmatics
description: At home children's temperature is measured with a digital thermometer in the armpit or ear; a hand on the forehead is not reliable. Who acts: hand. 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 9

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At home children's temperature is measured with a digital thermometer in the armpit or ear; a hand on the forehead is not reliable.

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** measure, not be · **To what, where:** temperature, home

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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 (hand), 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:9
# text = At home children's temperature is measured with a digital thermometer in the armpit or ear; a hand on the forehead is not reliable.
# 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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	digital	digital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	armpit	armpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	reliable	reliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | present · passive |  | children's temperature |  | home |  | with a digital thermometer; in the armpit or ear | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at home=Value |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | a hand on the forehead |  |  |  |  | reliable *property* | 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:9`.

**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.

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