Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics, sentence 6

A fever is not the illness itself but one of the body's weapons: many germs multiply more slowly when it is warmer, and the body's defences work faster.

Who acts: fever, many germs, defences, body · What happens: not be, multiply, be, work, defend · To what, where: illness

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» of the world 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, many germs, defences, 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	6 illness	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 illness	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 illness	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 illness	det
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	6 illness	nmod:unmarked
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 one	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 illness	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 weapons	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 body	det
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weapons	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 body	case
14	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 germs	punct
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 germs	amod
17	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 multiply	nsubj
18	multiply	multiply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 illness	parataxis
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 slowly	advmod
20	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	18 multiply	advmod
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 warmer	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 warmer	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 warmer	cop
24	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 multiply	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 work	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 work	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 body	det
28	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 defences	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 body	case
30	defences	defence	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 work	nsubj
31	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 multiply	conj
32	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 work	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 illness	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a fever	the illness	fever nmod:unmarked	tree rules
2	multiply	present	many germs		slowly property	vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	fever		warm property	tree rules
4	work	present	the body's defences		fast property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	defend		the body			nom defence «process transitive»: poss=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:world:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.lesson:6.

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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