Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 14

A fever means the body has turned up its thermostat to around 38 to 39 degrees instead of about 37, which helps the immune system fight germs.

Who acts: fever, body · What happens: mean, turn up, help, fight · To what, where: thermostat, germs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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, body), 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	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 means	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 turned	compound:prt
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 thermostat	nmod:poss
10	thermostat	thermostat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 38	mark
12	around	around	ADV	_	13 38	advmod
13	38	38	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 turned	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 39	case
15	39	39	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 degrees	nummod
16	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turned	obl
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 37	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 37	advmod
20	37	37	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 turned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 helps	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 helps	nsubj
23	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 37	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 system	det
25	immune	immune	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 system	compound
26	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fight	compound
27	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 helps	xcomp
28	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fight	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a fever			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	turn up	present · perfect	the body	body's thermostat	instead 37; 39 degrees obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thermostat=Theme
3	help	present				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	fight	infinitive		germs		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-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, 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:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:14.

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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×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.

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