--- title: A fever is not the illness itself but one of the body's weapons: man… — Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics · tree and pragmatics description: A fever is not the illness itself but one of the body's weapons: many germs multiply more slowly when it is warmer, and the body's defences work faster. Who acts: fever, many germs, defences, body. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fever, many germs, defences, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.lesson:6 # text = A fever is not the illness itself but one of the body's weapons: many germs multiply more slowly when it is warmer, and the body's defences work faster. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 040-body-and-physics-reasoning.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 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 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 multiply multiply VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 20 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 defences defence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 32 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a fever | the illness | | | | fever *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **multiply** | present | many germs | | | | | slowly *property* | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | fever | | | | | warm *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | present | the body's defences | | | | | fast *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **defend** | | the body | | | | | | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=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:world:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.lesson:6`. **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/). - ← previous: [Thinking like a scientist: the body an…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/5/) - next →: [Thinking like a scientist: the body an…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/)