Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 12

The normal temperature inside a healthy human body is about 37 degrees Celsius; a temperature well above that, such as 39, is a fever, a sign of illness.

Who acts: normal temperature, temperature · What happens: be, sign · To what, where: 37 degrees, fever, illness

This is a sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 (normal temperature, temperature), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 temperature	det
2	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 temperature	amod
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 degrees	nsubj
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 body	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 body	det
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 temperature	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 degrees	cop
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 37	advmod
11	37	37	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 degrees	nummod
12	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 degrees	appos
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fever	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 temperature	det
16	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fever	nsubj
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 temperature	advmod
18	above	above	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 temperature	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 39	punct
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	23 39	case
22	as	as	ADP	_	21 such	fixed
23	39	39	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 temperature	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Celsius	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fever	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fever	det
27	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 degrees	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sign	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sign	det
30	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fever	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 illness	case
32	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sign	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 degrees	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the normal temperature inside a healthy human body	37 degrees and a fever	tree rules
2	is a	present	a temperature above that such 39	a fever	tree rules
3	sign			illness	nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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:world:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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