Fever, sentence 11
Febrile seizures, or fever fits, are fits caused by a rising fever in children aged about 6 months to 5 years; they are scary but almost always harmless and don't mean epilepsy, an illness of repeated fits.
Who acts: Febrile seizures, seizures · What happens: be, cause, rise, age, not mean, repeat · To what, where: fits, children, epilepsy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fever» 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 (Febrile seizures, seizures), 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 | Febrile | febrile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seizures | compound |
| 2 | seizures | seizure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fits | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 fits | cc |
| 5 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fits | compound |
| 6 | fits | fit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seizures | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seizures | punct |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fits | cop |
| 9 | fits | fit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fits | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 fever | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fever | det |
| 13 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 fever | amod |
| 14 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | obl:agent |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 caused | obl |
| 17 | aged | age | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 children | acl |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 6 | advmod |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 months | nummod |
| 20 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 aged | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 aged | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 scary | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 scary | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 scary | cop |
| 27 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fits | parataxis |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 harmless | cc |
| 29 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 always | advmod |
| 30 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 31 harmless | advmod |
| 31 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 scary | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 mean | cc |
| 33 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 mean | aux |
| 34 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 mean | advmod |
| 35 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 scary | conj |
| 36 | epilepsy | epilepsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mean | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 illness | punct |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 illness | det |
| 39 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 epilepsy | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 fits | case |
| 41 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 fits | amod |
| 42 | fits | fit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 illness | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fits | 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 | Febrile seizures or fever fits | fits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | participle | fits not said here | in children | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in child=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | age | participle | children not said here | month; year | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | seizures = seizure | scary property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | seizures = seizure not said here | always property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not mean | present · do-support | seizures = seizure not said here | epilepsy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent epilepsy=Topic | ||||
| 8 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:008-fever.lesson:11.
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 ×3. 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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