Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 14

Inflammation, redness, warmth and swelling, is the body sending blood and white cells to fight germs, but spreading redness with fever needs a doctor.

Who acts: Inflammation, body, spreading · What happens: be, send, fight, spread, need · To what, where: body, blood, germs, redness, doctor

This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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 (Inflammation, body, spreading), 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	Inflammation	inflammation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 body	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 redness	punct
3	redness	redness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Inflammation	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warmth	punct
5	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 redness	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swelling	cc
7	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warmth	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Inflammation	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 body	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 body	det
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 body	acl
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sending	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cells	cc
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cells	amod
16	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 blood	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fight	mark
18	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sending	advcl
19	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fight	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 needs	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 needs	cc
22	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 needs	csubj
23	redness	redness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spreading	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 fever	case
25	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 redness	nmod
26	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 body	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 doctor	det
28	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 needs	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 body	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Inflammation and redness	the body		tree rules
2	send	gerund	the body not said here	blood and white cells		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme
3	fight	to-infinitive	the body not said here	germs		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent
4	spread	gerund		redness	with fever	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent redness=Destination with fever=Theme
5	need	present	spreading	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:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.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): 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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