Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise, sentence 9
Normal body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius; in a fever the brain turns the thermostat up to make life harder for germs, and shivering is the body heating itself to the new setting.
Who acts: Normal body temperature, brain, shivering · What happens: be, turn up, make · To what, where: 37 degrees, thermostat, fever, life, body heating
This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise» 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 (Normal body temperature, brain, shivering), 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 | Normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 temperature | amod |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 temperature | compound |
| 3 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 degrees | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 degrees | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 37 | advmod |
| 6 | 37 | 37 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 degrees | nummod |
| 7 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | Celsius | Celsius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 degrees | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 turns | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fever | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fever | det |
| 12 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turns | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brain | det |
| 14 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turns | nsubj |
| 15 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 degrees | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thermostat | det |
| 17 | thermostat | thermostat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turns | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 turns | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 turns | advcl |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 make | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 germs | case |
| 24 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 harder | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shivering | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 heating | cc |
| 27 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heating | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 heating | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 heating | det |
| 30 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heating | compound |
| 31 | heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turns | conj |
| 32 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 31 heating | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 setting | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 setting | det |
| 35 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 setting | amod |
| 36 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heating | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 degrees | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Normal body temperature | 37 degrees | Celsius nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn up | present | the brain | the thermostat | a fever | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thermostat=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the brain not said here | life | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product | |||
| 4 | is a | present | shivering | the body heating | to the new setting | tree rules |
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:072-staying-healthy.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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