The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines, sentence 10

A fever is the body turning up the brain's thermostat to make it harder for germs to multiply; it is usually helpful, but a very high fever needs a doctor.

Who acts: fever, germs, germ, high fever · What happens: be, turn up, make, multiply, need · To what, where: body, thermostat, doctor

This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» of the biology 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, germs, germ, high fever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fever	det
2	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turning	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 body	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 body	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 turning	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brain	det
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thermostat	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 brain	case
11	thermostat	thermostat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turning	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turning	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 make	xcomp
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 multiply	mark
17	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 multiply	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 multiply	mark
19	multiply	multiply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 harder	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 helpful	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 helpful	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 helpful	cop
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	24 helpful	advmod
24	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 body	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 needs	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 needs	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fever	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 high	advmod
29	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fever	amod
30	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 needs	nsubj
31	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 helpful	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 doctor	det
33	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 needs	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 body	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the body		tree rules
2	turn up	gerund	a fever	the brain's thermostat		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thermostat=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	a fever not said here	thermostat	hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	multiply	to-infinitive	germs			vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	germ		helpful, usually property	tree rules
6	need	present	a high fever	a doctor		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme

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, 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:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:10.

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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