Fever, sentence 8
With a fever the body loses water by sweating and fast breathing; not drinking is more worrying than not eating, so doctors ask about drinking and weeing to check the body has enough water.
Who acts: body, drinking, doctors · What happens: lose, sweat, breathe, not drink, be, not eat · To what, where: water, enough water
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 (body, drinking, doctors), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 fever | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fever | det |
| 3 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loses | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loses | nsubj |
| 6 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loses | obj |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 sweating | mark |
| 9 | sweating | sweat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 loses | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 breathing | cc |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 breathing | compound |
| 12 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sweating | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 drinking | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 drinking | advmod |
| 15 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 worrying | csubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 worrying | cop |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 worrying | advmod |
| 18 | worrying | worry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 loses | parataxis |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 eating | mark |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 eating | advmod |
| 21 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 worrying | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ask | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 ask | advmod |
| 24 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ask | nsubj |
| 25 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 worrying | advcl |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 drinking | case |
| 27 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 ask | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 weeing | cc |
| 29 | weeing | wee | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 drinking | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 check | mark |
| 31 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 weeing | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 body | det |
| 33 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 has | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 check | ccomp |
| 35 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 water | amod |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 has | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 loses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | the body | water | with a fever | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | sweat | gerund | the body not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | breathe | gerund | the body not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not drink | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | drinking | worry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not eat | gerund | drinking not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | present | doctors | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | drink | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | wee | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | check | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 11 | have | present | the body | enough water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
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:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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